Hospital privileges for graduates of family practice residency programs.

In 1979 the American Academy of Family Physicians, as the first phase of a long-range study of family practice residency outcomes, surveyed graduates for the years 1970 through 1978 who were diplomates of the American Board of Family Practice. This report is limited to an overview analysis of the hospital admission and practice privileges of the 3,021 respondents actively practicing family medicine in the United States. A higher percentage of respondents in census regions west of the Mississippi River were more likely to have privileges in obstetrics and surgery than were respondents in eastern regions. Respondents in nonmetropolitan areas were more likely to have hospital privileges than were respondents in metropolitan areas.