Public policy review. A ten-year progress report on a family practice residency network in northern California.

We are now beginning to be able to evaluate the results of the rapid growth of family practice residency training programs during the past decade. Because this growth has been supported by federal and state funds, it is particularly important to review these programs to measure their progress toward the public policy goals established by legislation. The University of California, Davis, School of Medicine has been an innovator and leader in training family physicians. Graduates of the UC Davis Network of Family Practice Residency Programs are locating in medically underserved areas and are helping to respond to the perceived problems of specialty and geographic maldistribution of physicians.