The American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) jointly sponsor and administer the National Graduate Medical Education (GME) Census through GME Track, an Internet-based AAMC product. The 2 organizations also jointly maintain a database of training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and of the residents and fellows in them. This database is updated annually by adding to it the approximately 19 000 new residents who match into programs through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) as well as from information collected through the AAMC's follow-up report of medical schools. From May until December 2005 we surveyed directors of programs accredited by the ACGME about educational characteristics of their training programs. Information about these programs is maintained in FREIDA Online, an Internet-based public information source on GME programs that is available to medical students and residents. Starting in July 2005 we surveyed program directors about their active, transferred, and graduated residents for academic year 2005-2006. We provided program directors with lists of residents and fellows from the database and asked the directors to confirm or modify the training status of trainees who were present in their programs the prior year; to add new physicians to their program whom we did not already have in our database; and to confirm, edit, or add demographic information.
We surveyed 8403 active programs, of which 7235 (86.1%) completed the program survey and 6969 (82.9%) confirmed the status of all of their active physicians-in-training, accounting for 99 098 (96.1%) of active trainees. An additional 78 programs (0.1%) confirmed some but not all of their trainees (accounting for 1777 trainees), 107 (1.3%) confirmed that they did not have any trainees, 293 programs (3.5%) confirmed the status of nonactive trainees (graduates and transfers) but did not have any currently active trainees, and 956 programs (11.4%) did not confirm the status of any physician training in the program (including 781 programs that apparently did not have any active trainees). A total of 96.9% of all physicians in our database had their status confirmed (eg, active, graduated, withdrawn). Physicians whose status was not confirmed were "advanced" into the next year of training (n = 2231 [2.2% of active residents]) or "graduated" based on expected graduation date (n = 1879 [5.2% of graduated residents or fellows]).
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Appendix II, Table 1. ACGME-Accredited and Combined Specialty GME Programs and Resident Physicians According to Medical School of Graduation and Specialty and Subspecialty, 2000-2005
Appendix II, Table 2. Resident Physicians on Duty in ACGME-Accredited and in Combined Specialty Graduate Medical Education (GME) Programs August 1, 2005
Appendix II, Table 3. Total Number of Resident Physicians and Resident Physicians in Program Year 1 Positions and in Graduate Year 1 Positions on Duty August 1, 2005, in ACGME-Accredited Programs and in Combined Specialty Programs
Appendix II, Table 4. Programs and Resident Physicians on Duty August 1, 2005, by Number per 100 000 and by Region and State
Appendix II, Table 5. Citizenship Status of International Medical Graduates With No Prior US Graduate Medical Education (GME) in the First Year of GME on Duty August 1, 2005*
Appendix II, Table 6. Race and Hispanic Ethnic Origin of Resident Physicians on Duty August 1, 2005, by Type of Medical School From Which They Graduated*
Appendix II, Table 7. Citizenship/Visa Status of All Resident Physicians and International Medical Graduates (IMGs) on Duty in ACGME-Accredited and in Combined Specialty Programs August 1, 2005
Appendix II, Table 8. Race and Ethnic Origin of Resident Physicians in ACGME-Accredited and in Combined Specialty Graduate Medical Education (GME) Programs on Duty August 1, 2005, by Specialty*
Appendix II, Table 9. Resident Physicians Who Completed a Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program or Preliminary Year During 2004-2005
Appendix II, Table 10. Total Program Size and Number of First-Year Positions Available in ACGME-Accredited and in Combined Specialty Programs for the Next Academic Year (2006-2007) as Projected by Program Directors
Financial Disclosures: None reported.
