PROFESSIONAL ISSUESWho's filling the residency slots?Quick View. Oct. 23/30, 2006. ![]() U.S., international and osteopathic graduates fill 99.6% of the 103,106 graduate medical residency positions. U.S. graduates occupy 66.5% of those positions, and while their raw number is increasing, their percentage of the total has been decreasing slowly. The number of graduates from osteopathic and international medical schools filling slots is increasing at a faster rate and occupying a somewhat larger percentage of the total. This information and the accompanying full-text visual aids were drawn from the following source:Appendix 1, Sept. 6, Journal of the American Medical Association. [...] Quick Views provide a visual glimpse into current events in medicine.
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