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Number of Internal Medicine Fellows by Year of Training

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

	11/12	12/13	13/14	14/15	15/16	16/17	17/18	18/19	19/20	20/21
Total number of fellows	11173	11375	11478	11546	11751	11901	12501	13025	13423	13623
F1	4761	4788	4799	4844	4953	5254	5542	5832	5940	5990
F2	3784	3927	3940	3952	4043	4013	4212	4421	4645	4655
F3	2437	2450	2534	2428	2529	2502	2634	2709	2750	2906