Who filled first-year family medicine residency positions from 1991 to 2004?
Graduates of U.S. allopathic schools have filled less than one half of the family medicine positions offered in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match since 2001. Overall fill rates in July have been relatively stable at approximately 94 percent. Family medicine has become reliant on international medical graduates (IMGs), who in 2004 made up 38 percent of first-year residents. Klein LS, Ruddy GR, Phillips RL, McCann JL, Dodoo MS, and Green LA During the early 1990s, family medicine training positions increased by more than one third, adding about 900 positions, and the specialty enjoyed a revival of medical student interest.1 Allopathic graduates’ interest in family medicine has fallen precipitously since its height in 1996, when allopathic graduates filled almost three out of four training positions.
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