Ensuring an Effective Physician Workforce for America Recommendations for an Accountable Graduate Medical Education System

Ensuring an Effective Physician Workforce for America

Recommendations for an Accountable Graduate Medical Education System

Proceedings of a Conference Chaired by Michael M.E. Johns, MD October 2010 Atlanta, Georgia April 2011 | Revised November 2011

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The number of residents entering subspecialty programs increased by 42.7% between 2000 and 2009. Within the internal medicine subspecialties, all except geriatric medicine experienced robust rates of growth, ranging from 21.1% for pulmonary disease and critical care medicine to 42.4% for nephrology. Geriatric medicine saw a 6.3% decrease in the number of PY1 residents (Appendix, Table A2)

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Only three subspecialties (geriatric medicine, plastic surgery, and thoracic medicine) saw decreases in the number of USMDs entering the field between 2000 and 2009.

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