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The study results highlight the key variables that draw faculty into education and sustain their vitality, and the professional and personal challenges that can derail or support their careers. This information can be used to recruit, develop, and retain successful and productive physician educators in family medicine.

Both within and across rotations, the students eventually spent less time observing and more time working independently. However, the results suggest that preceptors in private practice may not allow students as much autonomy as do faculty preceptors. Further research is needed to determine (1) whether the differences between types of preceptors result in meaningful differences in the quality of education and (2) which activities or mixes of activities contribute most to students' education.