The content of family practice: do we need more studies?

Having an accurate job description of family physicians is important to a number of audiences. There is a tendency to produce another content profile of family practice in response to every specific request for an accurate job description, rather than examining the existing profiles. We analyzed the amount of similarity and therefore redundancy in currently available profiles of family practice. Our findings indicate remarkable consistency across profile studies. We conclude that there is no need to continue producing profiles of family practice unless something significant occurs in the medical environment to suggest there might be a change in the profile.