Graduate Medical Education, 2007-2008

The American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) jointly maintain a database of information on graduate medical education (GME) training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and of the residents and fellows in them. This database of residents is updated annually by adding to it the approximately 19 000 new residents who match into programs through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) as well as from information collected through the AAMC's follow-up report of medical schools. The AMA and the AAMC also jointly administer the annual National GME Census through GME Track, an Internet-based AAMC product. From May 2007 until December 2007 all directors of programs accredited by the ACGME were asked to complete the Census on GME Track. Information from the program directors about their programs is uploaded to FREIDA Online, an Internet-based public information source on GME programs that is available to medical students and residents. In July 2007 we surveyed program directors about their active, transferred, and graduated residents and fellows for academic year 2007-2008. We provided program directors with lists of residents and fellows from the current database and asked the directors to confirm or modify the training status of trainees who were present in their programs the prior year; to add new physicians to their program whom we did not already have in our database; and to confirm, edit, or add demographic information. This demographic information includes sex, birthdate, country of birth, citizenship status, and race/ethnicity.

We surveyed 8589 active programs, of which 7746 (90.2%) completed the program survey and 7211 (84.0%) confirmed the status of all of their active physicians-in-training, accounting for 102 226 (96.4%) active trainees. An additional 61 programs (0.7%) confirmed some but not all of their trainees (2028 trainees, 1.9%), 202 confirmed that they did not have any trainees (2.4%), 322 programs (3.7%) confirmed the status of nonactive trainees (graduates and transfers), but did not have any currently active trainees, and 793 programs (9.2%) did not confirm the status of any physician training in the program (including 644 programs that apparently did not have any active trainees). A total of 97.0% of all physicians in our database had their status confirmed (eg, active, graduated, withdrawn). Physicians whose status was not confirmed were “advanced” into the next year of training (n = 1721 [1.6% of active residents]) or “graduated” based on expected graduation date (n = 1348 [3.7% of graduated residents or fellows]). In total, we estimate that there were 106 012 active residents in ACGME-accredited programs during the 2007-2008 academic year.

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Appendix II, Table 1. ACGME-Accredited and Combined Specialty GME Programs and Resident Physicians According to Medical School of Graduation and Specialty and Subspecialty, 2002–2007

Appendix II, Table 2. Resident Physicians on Duty in ACGME-Accredited and in Combined Specialty Graduate Medical Education (GME) Programs December 1, 2007

Appendix II, Table 3. Total Number of Resident Physicians and Resident Physicians in Program Year 1 Positions and in Graduate Year 1 Positions on Duty December 1, 2007, in ACGME-Accredited Programs and in Combined Specialty Programs

Appendix II, Table 4. Programs and Resident Physicians on Duty December 1, 2007, by Number per 100 000 and by Region and State

Appendix II, Table 5. Citizenship Status of International Medical Graduates With No Prior US Graduate Medical Education (GME) in the First Year of GME on Duty December 1, 2007

Appendix II, Table 6. Race and Hispanic Ethnic Origin of Resident Physicians on Duty December 1, 2007, by Type of Medical School From Which They Graduated

Appendix II, Table 7. Citizenship/Visa Status of All Resident Physicians and International Medical Graduates (IMGs) on Duty in ACGME-Accredited and in Combined Specialty Programs, December 1, 2007

Appendix II, Table 8. Race and Ethnic Origin of Resident Physicians in ACGME-Accredited and in Combined Specialty Graduate Medical Education (GME) Programs on Duty December 1, 2007, by Specialty

Appendix II, Table 9. Resident Physicians Who Completed a Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program or Preliminary Year During 2006–2007

Appendix II, Table 10. Total Program Size and Number of First-Year Positions Available in ACGME-Accredited and in Combined Specialty Programs for the Next Academic Year (2008–2009) as Projected by Program Directors