Graduate Medical Education in the United States

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This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. INTRODUCTION This annual report on graduate medical education in the United States for the 1986-1987 academic year contains data on programs accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), by specialty and by region, and provides information on some characteristics of the persons in these programs. In November 1986, the ACGME through the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine accredited programs in nine subspecialties of internal medicine. This action added 1427 new programs to the ACGME system. RESIDENT AND RELATED TERMS In the medical education community each of the terms intern, resident, and fellow is used with various meanings. At times the generic term trainee is used to circumvent the ambiguity. Historically, the first year of graduate medical education was called an internship. In 1975, the American Medical Association House of Delegates accepted (on advice from its Council on Medical Education) the recommendation of the Citizens Commission on

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