Giving curriculum planners an edge: using entrance surveys to design family medicine education.

Objective: To pilot a survey of family medicine residents entering residency, describing their exposure to family medicine and their perspectives related to their future intentions to practise family medicine, in order to inform curriculum planners; and to test the methodology, feasibility, and utility of delivering a longitudinal survey to multiple residency programs.

Design: Pilot study using surveys.

Setting: Five Canadian residency programs.