Graduate Medical Education in the United States, 1984-1985

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INTRODUCTION This annual report on graduate medical education in the United States contains data on number of residency programs by specialty and by region, number of positions offered, number of trainees by specialty and by region, number of foreign medical graduates in each specialty and in each state, and information on the ethnic background and citizenship of trainees. This year's report also includes the results of a two-year Special Survey of programs that accept medical school graduates who have had no previous graduate medical training, ie, programs that offer postgraduate year-1 (PGY-1) positions. There is information on the institutions and agencies that sponsor graduate medical training programs. Four new subspecialties have been added to the list of accredited programs. In 1984, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), through the Residency Review Committees, accredited programs for hematology (pathology), neonatal-perinatal medicine, vascular surgery, and programs that combine training in general