This system is useful for determining educational content and processes that occur in ambulatory settings. Important differences were found in teaching and learning by type of health care visit. This factor can and should be used when considering how students meet educational objectives in community-based ambulatory settings.

PC physicians, in the first three to five years following residency, will have expenses that exceed earnings. This reality greatly increases the financial disincentive for pursuing a career in PC compared with other fields of medicine.