Residency applicants' perspectives on family medicine residency training length.

Background And Objectives: The Future of Family Medicine report advocated experimentation with 4-year residency training models. This study examines residency applicants' opinions about extending the length of residency training and seeks to determine which features of an extended program would be most desirable to applicants.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive, self-administered survey of residency applicant interviewees at Oregon's three family medicine residency training programs in 2004-2005.