Who's choosing primary care?
Quick View. Oct. 3, 2005.
The number of residents is at an all-time high.
The total number of physicians in training last year reached 101,291 residents. Subspecialty fellows drove most of the growth over the past five years, making up 14.1% of residents in 2004-05, up from 12.8% 1999-2000. Primary care residents accounted for more than 43% of the nation's doctors in training.
This information and the accompanying full-text visual aids were drawn from the following source:
"U.S. Graduate Medical Education, 2004-2005, Trends in Primary Care Specialties"
Journal of the American Medical Association, Sept. 7. [...]
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