According to a press release from the National Resident Matching Program, primary care residencies saw an increase in the number of U.S. medical school graduates entering their programs.
All the numbers involved in the 2011 match seem to be on the increase: more slots, more applicants, more graduates of international medical schools.
As encouraging as the trend in primary care residencies may be, U.S. seniors fill only 50-60% of the available slots. In specialities like dermatology and orthopaedic surgery, US. medical graduates make up over 90% of the incoming cohort, a sign of how competitive they are.
One comment I would say is that they include ALL internal medicine residents as primary care, but only a small minority of those end up in primary care. 75% of all internal medicine residents specialize and a large proportion of the other 25% do hospitalist work. They label this 25% as being general medicine but it is not a real good snapshot of primary care.
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That’s a valuable distinction, Craig. I wonder if anyone has tracked how many IM residents stay in primary care.
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