Audit Reports Affecting Multiple Agencies
A Statutory Review of Family Practice Clerkship
Report Number 95-042
The eight Texas medical schools are in compliance with the Family Practice Clerkship funding provisions of the General Appropriations Act (Senate Bill 5, Article III, Section 36, 73rd Legislature).
The overall percentage of graduating physicians in Texas selecting Family Practice as a residency choice has increased from 13 percent to 19 percent since 1991.
For 1994, all eight medical schools had expenditures for the Family Practice clerkship exceeding the amounts defined by the Legislature.
Family medicine department budgets at seven medical schools have increased since the implementation of the required clerkship in 1992.
All eight medical schools have an established curriculum and require that an exam be administered for the clerkship.
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