Number of Programs & Residents

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Some data presented here differs from earlier reports because the table has been updated to reflect the most accurate data currently available.

  97/98 98/99 99/00(3) 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07

(1) Total number of residents does not equal the sum of R1 through R3 because the numbers of R4 and R5 residents are not shown.

(2) Includes residents in an internal medicine categorical, primary care, or combined training program.

(3) Starting in the academic year 1999/2000, the ABIM asked program directors to track all preliminary and transitional internal medicine residents. This change explains the significant increase in the R1 preliminary/transitional category and the total number of residents reported for the 1999/2000 academic year.

Number of programs 410 407 402 396 394 391 390 392 388 389
Total number of residents (1) 22975 22568 23255 23306 23194 23417 23584 23762 23846 23897
R1 (2) 7319 7208 7089 7080 7134 7040 7035 7220 7283 7295
R1 preliminary / transitional 910 813 1700 1832 1913 2120 2216 2236 2270 2124
R2 7155 7089 7070 6957 6913 7042 7019 6989 7143 7066
R3 7175 6951 6856 6858 6763 6724 6824 6861 6771 7010