• DOI:10.1001/jama.2015.10473
• Corpus ID: 29667319

Graduate Medical Education, 2014-2015.

@article{Brotherton2015GraduateME,
  title={Graduate Medical Education, 2014-2015.},
  author={Sarah E. Brotherton and Sylvia I. Etzel},
  journal={JAMA},
  year={2015},
  volume={314 22},
  pages={
          2436-54
        }
}

• S. Brotherton, S. I. Etzel
• Published 8 December 2015
• Medicine
• JAMA

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) sponsor andadministertheNationalGraduateMedicalEducation (GME)CensusthroughGMETrack,anInternet-basedAAMCproduct, and together maintain a database of information on training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and of the residents and fellows in them.FromMayuntilDecember2014,alldirectorsoftrainingprograms accredited by the ACGME were asked to complete the program survey component of the census on GME Track. Information on the educational characteristics of the training programs is added to FREIDA Online, an Internet-based public information source on GME programs. Beginning in late July 2014, program directors were surveyed about their active, transferred, and graduated residents and fellows for academic year 2014-2015. Program directors were provided with lists of residents and fellows from the current database and were asked to confirm or modify the training status of trainees who were present in their programs the prior year; add new physicians to their program who were not already in our database; and confirm, edit, or add demographic information on all trainees. This demographic information includes sex, birthdate, country of birth, citizenship status, race, and Hispanic ethnicity. Race and Hispanic ethnicity for residents and fellows who had provided such information through various AAMC applications (eg, the Electronic Residency Application Service) was carried forward from those applications and included in the census. AAMC race data collection allows for more than 1 selection; therefore the following Tables have a new category: multiracial. We surveyed 9768 active programs, of which 9263 (94.8%) completed the program survey and 8514 (87.2%) confirmed the status of all of their active physicians in training, accounting for 112 942 (95.4%) of active trainees. An additional 72 programs (0.7%) confirmed some but not all of their trainees (1772 trainees, 1.5%), 245 confirmed that they did not have any trainees (2.5%), 397 programs (4.1%) confirmed the status of nonactive trainees (graduates and transfers), but did not have any currently active trainees, and 540 programs (5.5%) did not confirm the status of any physician training in the program (including 283 programs that apparently did not have any active trainees). A total of 94.8% of all physicians in our database had their status confirmed (eg, active, graduated, transferred, withdrawn). Physicians whose status was not confirmed were “advanced” into the next year of training (n = 3652 [3.1% of active residents]) or “graduated” based on expected graduation date (n = 1627 [4.0% of graduated residents and fellows]). In total, we estimate that there were 118 366 active residents in ACGME-accredited programs during the 2014-2015 academic year. The following Tables contain data from these surveys.