Table 1.

Applicants to California Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Family Medicine Preceptorship Program from 1996 to 2002

VariablesParticipants* (n [%])Nonparticipants† (n [%])Total (n)P
School<.001‡
    Loma Linda University18 (37)31 (63)49
    Stanford University29 (67)14 (33)43
    Touro University2 (100)0 (0)2
    University of California, Davis19 (76)6 (24)25
    University of California, Irvine88 (67)43 (33)131
    University of California, Los Angeles16 (28)42 (72)58
    University of California, San Diego22 (54)19 (46)41
    University of California, San Francisco38 (45)46 (55)84
    University of Southern California55 (59)38 (41)93
    Western University31 (55)25 (45)56
Degree.72
    DO33 (57)25 (43)58
    MD285 (54)239 (46)524
Gender.45§
    Female176 (58)130 (42)306
    Male132 (54)111 (46)243
    Unknown10 (30)23 (70)33
Year<.001
    199637 (47)41 (53)78
    199743 (47)49 (53)92
    199846 (45)57 (55)103
    199952 (63)31 (37)83
    200051 (49)53 (51)104
    200144 (67)22 (33)66
    200245 (80)11 (20)56
Residency match<.001
    Known281 (88)204 (77)485
    Unknown37 (12)60 (23)97

  • * Participants attended the preceptorship program.

  • † Nonparticipants applied to the preceptorship program but did not attend.

  • ‡ χ2 analysis did not include the 1 year of data from Touro University.

  • § χ2 analysis did not include unknown gender.