Documentation of inpatient clinical experience of family practice residents: a manual system.

A simple, efficient, and inexpensive system for quantitatively documenting the range of clinical experience of individual residents on inpatient rotations is described. Information provided by this system can be used by program faculty to make informed educational decisions concerning both the design of rotations and individual resident program planning. The data are also useful to residency graduates to document their clinical experience when applying for hospital privileges.