March 30, 2007

Family-Medicine Posts Are Waning

By KATHERINE MANGAN

In medical schools across the country, thousands of students tore open envelopes in late March to find out where they will spend the next several years training to be doctors. General surgery and obstetrics and gynecology were hot; family medicine was not, and that has educators worried.

For the ninth year in a row, the number of family-medicine residency positions offered through the match dropped. And even though the percentage of slots that were filled was up slightly this year,

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