Preliminary information available from the 2009 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) indicates that for family medicine residency programs 2,329 positions filled out of 2,555 positions offered (91.2%). This represents a decrease in the number of positions offered and filled but an increase in the percentage of family medicine residency positions filled through the NRMP over 2008. [Included in this category are family medicine-psychiatry, family medicine-emergency medicine, and family medicine-internal medicine programs.] Ninety nine fewer family medicine positions (3.9%) were offered in 2009 compared with 2008. Seventy five fewer positions (3.2%) were filled in 2009 compared with 2008 (2,329/91.2% vs. 2,404/90.6%)
Eighty nine fewer U.S. seniors (1,083 vs. 1,172) chose family medicine in 2009 compared with 2008. Slightly more U.S. seniors participated in NRMP in 2009 compared with 2008 (15,638 vs. 15,242), with a resulting decrease (7.4%) in the percentage of U.S. seniors who chose family medicine. Although 2008 marked the first time in over a decade that more U.S. seniors participating and matching through the NRMP matched into family medicine compared with the preceding year, this year there were fewer US seniors who matched into family medicine than 2007.
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