LETTER
Correction: Physician Workforce
1 April 1998 | Volume 128 Issue 7 | Page 606
In a recent position paper on physician workforce and graduate medical education [1], the first sentence of the first paragraph of the second column on page 144 should read, "Meanwhile, the total number of physicians in postgraduate residency training has ballooned from 69 142 in 1982 to 98 076 in 1996-1997, and the number of first-year residents is now more than 140% of the annual number of U.S. graduates from schools of allopathic and osteopathic medicine."
1. American College of Physicians. The physician workforce and financing of graduate medical education. Ann Intern Med. 1998; 128:142-8.
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