Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) has been demonstated to be a worthwhile approach to health care. Medical educators, however, have been slow to respond with curriculum changes that will facilitate the entry of medical school graduates into COPC. This paper describes a programme at the University of Washington that has a COPC focus with emphasis on care to the medically unders-erved. Analysis of this study's evaluation strategy suggests improvements to be incorporated into future research.1
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