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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Med. 2010 Apr;85(4):692–701. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181d3ca17

Table 2.

Residency Choice of Recent MD-PhD Alumni Still in Training*

Department MD-PhD alumni in training No. (%)
Internal medicine 270 (28.8)
Surgery 107 (11.4)
Pediatries 98 (10.4)
Pathology 79 (8.4)
Neurology 71 (7.6)
Radiology 61 (6.5)
Psychiatry 54 (5.8)
Dermatology 51 (5.4)
Radiation oncology 32 (3.4)
Ophthalmology 33 (3.5)
Anesthesiology 19 (2.0)
Obstetrics-gynecology 10 (1.1)
Emergency medicine 7 (0.7)
Postdoctoral training without residency 47 (5.0)
    Total 939 (100.0)
*

Summary of data provided by 21 MD-PhD programs on 939 recent graduates who were still in postgraduate training at the time that the survey data were collected in 2007-2008.