Family practice research journal
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Comparative Study
Factors chosen by department chairs as important to family medicine.
Family medicine faces significant challenges and opportunities in the next 20 years. This study was conducted to determine the importance of departmental factors to the discipline as perceived by the departmental chairs. ⋯ Although responding departmental chairs felt that many of the items were important, teaching and faculty issues were ranked as the most important areas to the discipline while fellowships was ranked least important.