Table 3.

Characteristics of sub-Saharan African international medical graduates in the United States by graduation year cohort

	1969 or earlier	1970–1979	1980–1989	1990–2000	OVERALL
Number	720	1167	2268	1179	5334
Currently in residency (%)	0	2.3	17.6	59.7	21.2
Gender (% male)	90.0	86.5	76.7	66.3	78.3
Generalists (%)	19.0	28.3	47.8	57.9	41.9
current practice location:
Urban (%)	95.3	94.1	93.7	95.7	94.4
Large rural (%)	2.4	3.3	3.6	2.6	3.1
Small rural (%)	1.7	2.1	1.8	1.1	1.7
Isolated rural (%)	0.7	0.6	0.9	0.6	0.7

Note: includes residents.

Source of data: American Medical Association: Physicians' professional record (AMA-PPD) 2002.