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. 2015 Jul 17;4(4):181–185. doi: 10.1007/s40037-015-0194-8

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of respondents and comparative ACGME data for all resident physicians in the United States

Characteristic Survey Respondents Number (%) All US Residents %a
Sex
Male 1116 (48.8) 50.2
Female 1155 (50.5) 42.7
Not reported 16 (0.7) 7.1
Post-graduate level of training
PGY-1 624 (27.3) 36.6
PGY-2 489 (21.4) 28.4
PGY-3 482 (21.1) 25.2
PGY-4 319 (13.9) 7.6
PGY-5 191 (8.4) 2.0
PGY-6 105 (4.6) 0.2
PGY-7 or greater 65 (2.8) 0.1
Not reported 12 (0.5)
Type of allopathic medical school
Academic medical centre 2030 (88.8)
Community based 244 (10.7)
Not reported 13 (0.6)
Post-graduate level of training
Anaesthesiology 97 (4.2) 5.6
Dermatology 44 (1.9) 1.2
Emergency medicine 198 (8.7) 4.7
Family medicine 213 (9.3) 9.0
General surgery 170 (7.4) 7.3
Internal medicine 408 (17.8) 28
Neurology 59 (2.6) 2.3
Obstetrics/Gynaecology 98 (4.3) 4.3
Pathology 58 (2.5) 2.1
Paediatrics 247 (10.8) 9.9
Psychiatry 118 (5.2) 5.3
Radiology 126 (5.5) 5.3
Surgery or surgical subspeciality 243 (10.6) 15.9
Transitional 22 (1.0) 1.1
Other 173 (7.6) 5.3
Not reported 13 (0.6)

NA not applicable, PGY postgraduate year.

aData for US resident physicians taken from the ACGME Data Resource Book; percentages may not total % because of rounding.