Term: Physician Characteristics
Last Updated: 2007-09-26
Physician profiling is valuable in contributing to an understanding of the role of the primary care physician. Profiling involves analyses of several key physician characteristics, including: age, gender, patient recall rate, average number of patients seen per day, relative income, practice location, years of practice in Manitoba (to a maximum of 11 years), principle method of payment (fee-for-service or salaried), whether they had hospital privileges, and whether they graduated from a Canadian medical school.