National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower: VII. Residency and Fellowship Training 1976-1977 Through 1980-1981

doi:10.1059/0003-4819-95-6-762

National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower: VII. Residency and Fellowship Training 1976-1977 Through 1980-1981

Chicago, Illinois

Abstract

A complete census of the number of residents training in internal medicine and fellows in subspecialty training for 1979-1980 and 1980-1981 has been compiled by the National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower. Complete information is now available for the 5-year period from 1976-1977 through 1980-1981. The number of first year residents in internal medicine continues to rise. A constant percentage (35% to 38%) of the graduating class of United States medical schools has entered these programs each year for over a decade. The number of first year fellows in subspecialty training, which in the first half of the 1970s rose 10% to 11% annually, has declined slightly in the second half of the 1970s and has been stable in the past 2 years. The net result of the increasing number of residents and the decreasing number of fellows is a rising proportion of internists entering general internal medicine and a proportionate decline in those choosing subspecialty careers.

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↵* In colaboration with The Association of Professors of Medicine Task Force on Manpower. At the time of the survey, Summer 1980, the members of the Task Force were the following: William P. Deiss, Jr., M.D.; Saul J. Farber, M.D.; Edward W. Hook, M.D.; Joseph E. Johnson III, M.D.; John L. Townsend, M.D.; and Alvin R. Tarlov, M.D., Chairman. At the time this manuscript was prepared the members were the following: Eugene Braunwald, M.D.; William P. Deiss, Jr., M.D.; Edward W. Hook, M.D.; Graham H. Jeffries, M.D.; Joseph E. Johnson III, M.D.; Jay H. Stein, M.D.; Samuel O. Thier, M.D.; and Harry N. Beaty, M.D., Chairman.
▸From the section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Center for Health Administration Studies, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois.
Grant support: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Palo Alto, California.
▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Mary Kay Schleiter, M.A.; Department of Medicine, Box 265, 950 East 59th Street; Chicago, IL 60637.