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Subspecialist residencies on the rise

Quick View. March 20, 2006.

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While the number of family medicine residency programs declines, the numbers for subspecialties are going up.

During the 2004-05 academic year, 150 resident programs won first-time accreditation. Most of these programs were in subspecialties. At the same time, 70 programs lost accreditation. Family medicine saw the most losses as eight programs, or 2% of all family medicine residencies, closed. Here are some of the top gainers among the newly accredited programs.

This information and the accompanying full-text visual aids were drawn from the following source:

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education Data Resource Book 2004-05.

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