Table 5.

Graduating US medical students’ specialty certification plans (%)

Specialty group	1985	1995	2005	2007	2010
General*	29.9	27.6	19.6	16.9	30.5
Medical	22.2	27.1	26.4	28.3	7.5
Surgical	30.6	27.1	29.8	27.6	23.0
Support	17.3	18.2	25.1	26.1	26.5

Source: Brandenburg K et al. AAMC data book: Medical schools and teaching hospitals by the Numbers; 2008, p. 37. Reproduced with original submission. © 2011 Association of American Medical Colleges. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission.

^*General specialties include family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics.