A SURVEY OF RESIDENCY MANAGEMENT-TRAINING - GENERAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE GRADUATES

General preventive medicine residents at the University of Arizona are introduced to management skills and issues during graduate medical tr aining to prepare them for future administrative positions. Our object ives were to learn whether administration training was effective and i f acquired skills are useful in present job duties of graduates. We ma iled a questionnaire to former general preventive medicine residents w ho had graduated between 1983 and 1992. Twenty-one (81.8%) of the 26 g raduates returned a completed questionnaire rating the extent to which certain training activities improved administration skills and assess ing the extent to which residency training overall prepared them for a dministrative work. Ratings reflected adequate preparation and usefuln ess of skills on the job. The survey indicates that administrative tra ining should begin during residency years and that a variety of short- term and long-term activities organized throughout both academic and p racticum years can produce reasonable success in graduates.