Approved internships and residencies in the United States; annual report of internships and residencies by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association.

Abstract

In this issue the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals presents its annual report on graduate training. The official list of intern and residency programs includes data regarding hospitals approved as of April 1, 1950. Lists of additional programs approved will be published from time to time in subsequent issues ofThe Journal, including the Educational Number scheduled for publication Sept. 9, 1950. Hospitals approved for intern training are listed by states together with data concerning the type of ownership or control, bed capacity, number of annual admissions, type of internship, length of service, number of positions offered by the hospital, affiliated assignments, outpatient service, autopsy rate and monthly stipend. It has been considered advisable to delete the column "Percentage of Service Cases" appearing in previous reports because of the difficulty in establishing a uniform basis for reporting this statistic; the type of control will ordinarily give sufficient information in