10 things you didn't know about medical residents - AAMC

The fig of aesculapian residents grooming successful the United States continues its upward trend, the AAMC 2022 Report connected Residents shows.

In 2021, 149,296 aesculapian residents trained successful Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited residency programs oregon fellowships crossed the United States, astir 5,000 much than successful 2020 and astir 10,000 much than successful 2019. Of those, astir one-quarter graduated from aesculapian schoolhouse extracurricular of the United States oregon Canada. Representation of women, Hispanic people, and Black radical made tiny strides arsenic the percentages of members of these historically underrepresented groups accrued successful the wide constitution of residents.

The study besides shows that fractional of U.S. MD students changed their preferred specialty during aesculapian schoolhouse and somewhat much than fractional of physicians who completed residency betwixt 2012 and 2021 opted to proceed practicing successful the aforesaid authorities wherever they trained.

These are conscionable a fewer of the findings successful the 2022 Report connected Residents, which the AAMC compiles annually to assistance residency applicants, residency directors, and researchers amended recognize changes successful the experiences of aesculapian residents implicit time. Below are selected findings from the report. More elaborate information tin beryllium viewed here.

Diverse backgrounds and experiences

1. Graduates of planetary aesculapian schools — IMGs — made up astir 23% of aesculapian residents successful 2021, with astir one-third of those specializing successful interior medicine.
2. Graduates of DO-granting schools accounted for astir 17% of aesculapian residents, with graduates of MD-granting schools accounting for 60% of each residents.
3. Women are getting person to accounting for fractional of each aesculapian residents. Across each specialties, women accounted for 47.3% of residents successful 2021, compared with 46.4% successful 2020 and 45.8% successful 2019. Women made up a larger percent of residents successful these specialties: household medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. Men were successful the bulk successful specified specialties arsenic anesthesiology, exigency medicine, interior medicine, radiology, and surgery.
4. While the contention and ethnicity of residents varied crossed specialties, overall, 48.8% of U.S. national MD residents self-identified arsenic White, 21.6% identified arsenic Asian, 8.1% identified arsenic Hispanic, 6.1% identified arsenic Black oregon African American, 0.6% identified arsenic American Indian oregon Alaska Native, and 0.2% identified arsenic Native Hawaiian oregon Other Pacific Islander. This is simply a flimsy alteration implicit the erstwhile year, erstwhile 50.0% of residents identified arsenic White, 7.8% identified arsenic Hispanic, and 5.8% identified arsenic Black oregon African American. The different percentages remained comparatively consistent.

Differences among specialties

5. One 100 percent of residents specializing successful orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, integrative surgery, oregon urology who took the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam Step 2-CK passed connected the archetypal try.
6. About fractional of U.S. MD aesculapian students changed their preferred specialty implicit the people of aesculapian school, with lone 27.9% successful 2022 saying they intended to prosecute the aforesaid specialty they indicated astatine the opening of aesculapian school. The specialties that had the highest continuity of penchant were orthopedic country (51.0%), pediatrics (44.7%), and neurological country (42.3%).
7. Internal medicine was the astir fashionable specialty, accounting for astir 20% of each residents. Residents practicing successful the infectious diseases subspecialty accrued from 779 successful 2018 to 836 successful 2021.

Post-residency

8. Over the past respective years, 3.3% of progressive residents who graduated from an MD-granting schoolhouse held dual MD-PhD degrees.
9. Of radical who completed residency betwixt 2012 and 2021, 55.2% opted to proceed practicing successful the authorities wherever they completed their training, a fig down somewhat from 57.1% successful 2020. California had the highest retention rate, astatine 77.2%, with Wyoming having the lowest (38.3%) isolated from the District of Columbia (36%).
10. About 20% of radical who completed residency grooming betwixt 2012 and 2021 clasp full-time module appointments, with 78.2% of those appointments being astatine the adjunct prof level.