FP Report -- December 1999
Family practice education: A half-century of growth
1950
AAGP helps organize first general practice residency programs.1969
First 15 family practice residencies are accredited.1971
U.S. Congress initiates line item funding for family practice training.1974
2,671 residents are training in 205 accredited family practice programs.1975
First National Conference of Student Affiliate Members is held in Kansas City, Mo.1985
Family medicine interest groups established at U.S. medical schools.1986
Total graduates of three-year family practice residencies tops 20,000.1988
AAFP student membership totals 9,666.1993
Albert Einstein College in Bronx, N.Y., is the first of the AAFP's "target" schools to create an academic department of family medicine.1997
10,531 family practice residents are training in 457 U.S. programs.1998
3,328 family practice residents graduate - an all-time high.1999
2,697 applicants match into family practice residencies in March (compared with 2,814 who matched in 1998). By July 1, however, the specialty has 3,538 first-year residents -- just 37 shy of record-setting July 1,1998, figures -- for a fill rate of 97.1%.
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