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Home Research Research Library The Association Between Residency Characteristics and Graduates Caring for Children: A Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project The Association Between Residency Characteristics and Graduates Caring for Children: A Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project 2025 Author(s) Barr, Wendy Brooks, Peterson, Lars E, Fleischer, Sarah E, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Education & Training, Role of Primary Care, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Children & Adolescents, Graduate Medical Education, and Imprinting Of Training Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine Background and Objectives: The proportion of family physicians caring for children is decreasing. At the same time, US family medicine residency training requirements have increased flexibility in how to train future family physicians in caring for this population. Our objective was to evaluate the correlation between residency program structures and curriculum with graduates caring for children. Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study of family medicine graduates using the 2018 Council of Academic Family Medicine Education Research Alliance program director study to measure program characteristics and pediatric curricular elements, and the 2021 family medicine National Graduate Survey (NGS) of residents who graduated in 2018 to measure outcomes. We used logistic regression to determine associations between residency elements and graduate practice of outpatient pediatrics, inpatients pediatrics, or newborn hospital care. Results: After data from the two sources were merged, our final sample was 779 family medicine graduates (48% of the NGS sample), where 74.7% reported practicing outpatient pediatrics, 16.8% inpatient pediatrics, and 25.9% newborn care. In multivariate analyses, residency processes associated with the care of children in one or more settings included having more than 10% of continuity clinic patients under the age of 10 and having two or more family medicine faculty supervising inpatient pediatrics or newborn care. Conclusions: In a large national cohort study, we found that residency processes—especially faculty role modeling care of children and the inclusion of children in continuity clinic—are positively associated with residency graduates providing care for children. With residency training requirements changing, these results offer evidence-based interventions for programs to produce graduates who will care for children. ABFM Research Read all 2017 Impact of Potential Accreditation and Certification in Family Medicine Maternity Care Go to Impact of Potential Accreditation and Certification in Family Medicine Maternity Care 2025 The Impact of COVID-19 on Cervical Cancer Screening in Primary Care Go to The Impact of COVID-19 on Cervical Cancer Screening in Primary Care 2022 Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity Go to Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity 2020 Family Medicine Clerkship Directors’ Handling of Student Mistreatment: Results From a CERA Survey Go to Family Medicine Clerkship Directors’ Handling of Student Mistreatment: Results From a CERA Survey
Author(s) Barr, Wendy Brooks, Peterson, Lars E, Fleischer, Sarah E, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Education & Training, Role of Primary Care, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Children & Adolescents, Graduate Medical Education, and Imprinting Of Training Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2017 Impact of Potential Accreditation and Certification in Family Medicine Maternity Care Go to Impact of Potential Accreditation and Certification in Family Medicine Maternity Care 2025 The Impact of COVID-19 on Cervical Cancer Screening in Primary Care Go to The Impact of COVID-19 on Cervical Cancer Screening in Primary Care 2022 Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity Go to Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity 2020 Family Medicine Clerkship Directors’ Handling of Student Mistreatment: Results From a CERA Survey Go to Family Medicine Clerkship Directors’ Handling of Student Mistreatment: Results From a CERA Survey
2017 Impact of Potential Accreditation and Certification in Family Medicine Maternity Care Go to Impact of Potential Accreditation and Certification in Family Medicine Maternity Care
2025 The Impact of COVID-19 on Cervical Cancer Screening in Primary Care Go to The Impact of COVID-19 on Cervical Cancer Screening in Primary Care
2022 Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity Go to Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity
2020 Family Medicine Clerkship Directors’ Handling of Student Mistreatment: Results From a CERA Survey Go to Family Medicine Clerkship Directors’ Handling of Student Mistreatment: Results From a CERA Survey