University of Minnesota producing more than its fair share of FPs

Medical school graduates from the University of Minnesota are more likely to enter family medicine residency than are those of any other MD-granting college, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Data from the AAFP’s annual survey of family medicine residency programs showed that, over a 3-year period from 2013 to 2015, 19% of the University of Minnesota’s medical school graduates entered a family medicine residency, reported Stanley M. Kozakowski, MD, and his associates (Fam Med. 2016;48[9]:688-95).

In 2015, the University of Minnesota produced 42 graduates who became FP residents, the highest number for any of the 134 U.S. medical schools granting MD degrees in family medicine. Among schools granting DO degrees, however, the leader for 2015 was Des Moines University, which had 68 students (32.7%) enter family medicine, the investigators said. Of the 2,463 individuals who were first-year family medicine residents in 2015, 1,640 graduated from MD-granting schools and 823 graduated from DO-granting schools.

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