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Table 1 Characteristics of participating primary care clinics (n = 19 in 16 VISNs)

From: Striving toward team-based continuity: provision of same-day access and continuity in academic primary care clinics

Clinic Size

 # Primary Care patients enrolled

~ 9000 to ~ 100,000

 % Primary Care patients with a resident as their assigned PCP

2 to 43%

 # Residents

16a to 144

 # Attending physicians (i.e., precept residents)

5 to 40

Clinic Structure

 # Sites with attendings who were:

  Most or all part-time in clinic with own patient panels

15 (79%)

  All full-time in clinic with own patient panels

3 (16%)

  All full-time in clinic without own patient panels

1 (5%)

 # Sites with residents who were:

  Integrated into most or all clinic teams

10 (53%)

  On teams separate from non-academic teams, co-located with non-academic teams

7 (37%)

  On teams separate from non-academic teams, not co-located with non-academic teams

2 (10%)

Residency Model

 Traditional model (1 to 2 half days in clinic per week)

13b (68%)

 Block model (weeks of inpatient and outpatient rotations, including 4 + 1, 4 + 4, 6 + 2, 8 + 8, and 12 + 12)

6 (32%)

  1. VISN Veterans Integrated Service Network, PCP Primary Care Provider
  2. aSite in its first year hosting a residency program
  3. b8 of these were moving to or considering moving to a block model