Developing generalists for Kentucky.

Since 1985, nearly half of the graduates of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine have chosen generalist careers, even though its students received almost no outpatient ambulatory training in primary care before 1990. This study determined the factors influencing the choice of generalist specialties in the absence of ambulatory training experience. A questionnaire was mailed to the 516 graduates of the classes of 1964 through 1989 who had entered a generalist specialty.