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Introduction
The American College of Surgeons (ACS)
has conducted a detailed annual survey of surgical residents
in all specialties, beginning with the 1982-1983
academic year.1
Data have been reported in independent
publications and, most recently, in a scientific report published
in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons
in 1996.2
The data have been used to show trends in the total enrollment
and graduates of the 12 surgical specialties during this 15-year
time frame, and have been important information for health care
planners addressing workforce issues.
Since 1994 the ACS has cooperated with the Medical Education
Research and Information Database of the American Medical Association
to obtain information on each surgical resident enrolled in graduate
medical education (GME). Before this collaboration, the ACS conducted
its independent survey of program directors, specialty societies,
and certifying boards, achieving between 97.8% and 100% reporting
frequency. The reporting frequency since 1994 has been 100%.
This report presents the data of surgical residents from the
years 1994-95 and 1995-96, and documents trends in total numbers
and demographics of surgical residents in the 8 core surgical
specialties (specialties offering primary certification by an
American Board of Medical Specialty member board: general surgery,
neurological surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology,
orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, urology),
and in the advanced general surgery-based specialties of colon
and rectal surgery, pediatric surgery, surgical critical care,
thoracic surgery, and vascular surgery.
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