Family Practice
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ABOUT THIS SPECIALTY
FAMILY PRACTICE AT A GLANCE
Overview of the Specialty of Family Practice
Family practice physicians are trained to prevent, diagnose and treat a wide variety of ailments in patients of all ages. Although the scope and practice of family medicine is broad, it is a precise discipline, integrating a unique blend of biomedical, behavioral and social sciences. Family practice focuses on care within the context of the family on a continuing basis. Family physicians employ a diverse range of cognitive and procedural skills and coordinate care with other specialists when necessary. They receive training in surgery, psychiatry, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and geriatrics (Ref: #2).
Training Requirements for Family Practice
Training consists of a minimum of three years of postgraduate education in a ACGME-accredited training program. There are 475 family practice residency programs accredited by the ACGME for 2004/2005 offering nearly 2,800 categorical positions available to U.S. seniors.
Matching Program Information and Match Statistics for Family Practice
Family practice residency training programs participate in the NRMP. Match results through the NRMP and competitiveness information for family practice residency training positions are summarized on the right.
Subspecialty/Fellowship Training for Family Practice
Subspecialty/fellowship training following completion of a family practice residency training program is available in geriatric medicine and sports medicine. Detailed information about the scope of these subspecialty training programs, number of positions offered and length of training is available in the GMED. Further information can be obtained from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access page (FREIDA).
Career Information
FREIDA physcian workforce information for each specialty includes statistical information on the number of positions/programs for residency training, resident workhours, resident work environment and compensation, employment status upon completion of program and work environment for those entering practice in each specialty.
Access FREIDA
For summary statistics and physician workforce information, click on "Specialty Statistics."
Training
3 years of residency
Categorical positions available
These are minimum requirements. Some programs may have longer residencies.
Fellowships Subspecialty Length
Geriatric Medicine
Sports Medicine 1 year
1 year
Lifestyle Mean Salary
$146,500 <-------- Disgusting!
Median Salary $135,000
Average hours worked per week: 50.7
<---- For the above salary! Amazing.....
Source (if not listed above): Physician Socioeconomic Statistics. c. 2003 Edition, American Medical Association
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US MATCH STATISTICS
Competitiveness(*)
2006 :
Low 2005 :
Low 2004 :
Low
Competitiveness is based on the percentage of U.S. seniors who match in each specialty.
2006 2005 2004
# Categorical/ Advanced positions available for U.S. Seniors 2761 2761 2864
% U.S. Seniors matched* 98 98 *100
# Unfilled Categorical/ Advanced Positions 404 486 608
#Unmatched U.S. seniors 20 20 21
; *Among U.S. seniors who ranked only family practice programs; over 80% of U.S. seniors ranking family practice programs ranked ONLY this specialty. <P> From the National Residency Matching Program data
From the National Resident Matching Program data.
All residency matching programs do not currently provide their match results data in a uniform format. The statistics provided at this web site have been derived from currently available data provided by these residency matching programs, approximated to facilitate comparison across all specialties for US senior medical students . This is intended to provide an overview of the matching process , on a specialty-specific basis for US senior medical students, and should be viewed in this context.
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY RESOURCES
Washington University Graduate Medical Education
http://medicine.wustl.edu/gme/
Information about graduate medical education at Washington University.
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NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
where TONS of FMG had also applied, these states were called FMG friendly. So, basically you were competing with people whose scores were 230+ and were willing to slave away with no complaints what so ever for the next 3 years, and some of them had already finished residency in their own country, some of them were even attendings 
