title: Entry of US Medical School Graduates Into Family Medicine Residencies: 2014-2015.
abstract: This is the 34th national study conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) that reports retrospectively the percentage of graduates from US MD-granting and DO-granting medical schools who entered Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited family medicine residency programs as first-year residents in 2014. Approximately 8.5% of the 18,241 students graduating from US MD-granting medical schools between July 2013 and June 2014 entered a family medicine residency. Of the 1,458 graduates of the US MD-granting medical schools who entered a family medicine residency in 2014, 80% graduated from 69 of the 131 schools. Eleven schools lacking departments or divisions of family medicine produced only a total of 26 students entering family medicine. In aggregate, medical schools west of the Mississippi River represent less than a third of all US MD-granting schools but have an aggregate rate of students selecting family medicine that is two-thirds higher than schools to the east of the Mississippi. A rank order list of US MD-granting medical schools was created based on the last 3 years' average percentage of graduates who became family medicine residents, using the 2014 and prior AAFP census data. US MD schools continue to fail to produce a primary care workforce, a key measure of social responsibility as measured by their production of graduates entering into family medicine. DO-granting and international medical school graduates filled the majority of ACGME-accredited family medicine first-year resident positions in 2014.
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Division, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, KS.
authors.forename: Stanley M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Kozakowski
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fetter
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bentley
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005550:Foreign Medical Graduates / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055360:Osteopathic Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States