Table 1. Summary of U.S. Graduate Medical Education Outcome Measures for Residents Graduating in 2006–2008.

	Sponsoring Institutions					Primary Teaching Sites
Outcome measure*	No. of programs included in analyses	No. of programs with outcome > 0	Mean (SD)	Median	Range	No. of programs included in analyses	No. of programs with outcome > 0	Mean (SD)	Median	Range
% of Graduates in primary care (PC)	759	601	24.17 (19.29)	17.71	0–100	957	667	22.45 (21.83)	14.96	0–100
% of internal medicine (IM) Graduates retained in general IM	343†	357	37.88 (17.22)	33.82	8.28– 95.24	299†	305	38.43 (17.91)	33.72	8.28– 95.24
No. of graduates in general surgery (GS)	759	264	14.25 (12.23)	12	0–62	957	249	9.50 (9.02)	9	0–47
% of GS Graduates retained in GS	255	248	38.42 (14.12)	35.71	0–100	222	221	38.19 (14.26)	25.44	0–100
No. of graduates in psychiatry	759	266	14.97 (13.42)	14	0–64	957	271	9.22 (10.22)	6	0–40
% of Graduates practicing in Health Professional Shortage Areas‡	725	637	25.84 (14.11)	21.95	0–100	937	823	25.91 (15.02)	21.41	0–100
% of Graduates practicing in rural areas‡	725	561	8.51 (9.05)	6.33	0–100	937	682	8.33 (9.41)	5.88	0–100
No. of graduates practicing in Federally Qualified Health Centers	759	430	5.39 (5.08)	4	0–20	957	454	2.79 (2.85)	2	0–20
No. of graduates practicing in Rural Health Centers	759	286	2.12 (2.79)	1	0–27	957	281	1.13 (1.74)	1	0–12
No. of graduates practicing in the National Health Service Corps	759	280	2.12 (2.27)	2	0–11	957	291	1.23 (1.53)	1	0–8
No. of specialties	759	759	39.35 (25.01)	42	1–83	957	957	7.55 (12.48)	2	1–71

^*All results are weighted for number of residents in a program, except % of Graduates retained in IM and % of Graduates retained in GS, which are weighted for number of IM or GS residents in a program, respectively, and No. of specialties, which is not weighted.

^†Limited to programs graduating 5 or more internal medicine residents in the 2006-2008 period.

^‡Limited to physicians in direct patient care in the 2011 American Medical Association Masterfile.