he American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) jointly sponsor and administer the National GME Census through GME Track, an internet-based AAMC product, and together maintain a database of information on training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and of the residents and fellows in them. From May until December 2017, all directors of ACGMEaccredited programs were asked to complete the program survey component of the Census on GME Track. Information on the educational characteristics of the training programs was added to FREIDA Online, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database, a public resource on GME programs available to medical students, residents, and fellows. Beginning in late July 2017, program directors were surveyed about their active, transferred, and graduated residents and fellows for academic year 2017-2018. Program directors were provided with lists of residents and fellows from the current database and were asked to (1) confirm or modify the training status of trainees in their programs the prior year; (2) add new physicians to their program who were not already in our database; and (3) confirm, edit, or add demographic information on all trainees. This demographic information includes sex, birthdate, country of birth, citizenship status, race, and Hispanic ethnicity. Data on race and Hispanic ethnicity for residents and fellows who had provided such information through various AAMC applications (eg, the Electronic Residency Application Service) was carried forward from those applications and included in the Census. We surveyed 10 909 active programs, of which 10 466 (95.9%) completed the program survey and 9519 (87.2%) confirmed the status of all of their active physicians-in-training, accounting for 126 910 (97.2%) active trainees. An additional 32 programs (0.3%) confirmed some but not all of their trainees (651 trainees, 0.5%), 423 confirmed that they did not have any trainees (3.9%), 513 programs (4.7%) confirmed the status of nonactive trainees (graduates and transfers) but did not have any currently active trainees, and 422 programs (3.9%) did not confirm the status of any physician training in the program (including 248 programs that apparently did not have any active trainees). A total of 97.1% of all physicians in our database had their status confirmed (active, graduated, transferred, or withdrawn). Physicians whose status was not confirmed were "advanced" into the next year of training (n = 2984 [2.3% of active residents]) or "graduated" based on expected graduation date (n = 1051 [2.4% of graduated residents and fellows]). In total, we estimate that there were 130 545 active residents in ACGME-accredited programs during the 2017-2018 academic year. The following tables include data from these surveys.

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he American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) sponsor and administer the National GME Census through GME Track, an internet-based AAMC product, and jointly maintain a database of information on training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and of the residents and fellows in them. From May until December 2019, all directors of ACGMEaccredited programs were asked to complete the program survey component of the Census on GME Track. Information on the educational characteristics of the training programs is added to FREIDA, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database, a public resource on GME programs that is available to medical students, residents and fellows. Starting in late July 2019, program directors were surveyed about their active, transferred, and graduated residents and fellows for academic year 2019-2020. Program directors were provided with lists of residents and fellows from the current database and were asked to (1) confirm or modify the training status of trainees who were present in their programs the prior year; (2) add new physicians to their program who were not already in our database; and (3) confirm, edit, or add demographic information on all trainees. This demographic information includes sex, birthdate, country of birth, citizenship status, race, and Hispanic ethnicity. Race and Hispanic ethnicity for residents and fellows who had provided such information through various AAMC applications (eg, the Electronic Residency Application Service) was carried forward from those applications and included in the Census.

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he American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) sponsor and administer the National GME Census through GME Track, an internet-based AAMC product, and jointly maintain a database of information on training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and of the residents and fellows in those programs. From May until December 2016, all directors of programs accredited by the ACGME were asked to complete the program survey component of the Census on GME Track. Information on the educational characteristics of the training programs was added to FREIDA Online, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database, a public information source on GME programs that is available to medical students, residents, and fellows. Beginning in late July 2016, program directors were surveyed about their active, transferred, and graduated residents and fellows for academic year 2016-2017. Program directors were provided with lists of residents and fellows from the current database and were asked to (1) confirm or modify the training status of trainees who were present in their programs the prior year; (2) add new physicians to their program who were not already in the database; and (3) confirm, edit, or add demographic information on all trainees. This demographic information includes sex, birthdate, country of birth, citizenship status, race, and Hispanic ethnicity. Information on race and Hispanic ethnicity for residents and fellows who had provided such information through various AAMC applications (eg, the Electronic Residency Application Service) was carried forward from those applications and included in the Census. We surveyed 10 343 active programs, of which 9899 (95.7%) completed the program survey and 9005 (87.1%) confirmed the status of all their active physicians-in-training, accounting for 120 410 (97.0%) active trainees. An additional 21 programs (0.2%) confirmed some but not all of their trainees (n = 153 individuals, 0.1%), 377 confirmed that they did not have any trainees (3.6%), 492 programs (4.8%) confirmed the status of nonactive trainees (graduates and transfers) but did not have any currently active trainees, and 448 programs (4.3%) did not confirm the status of any physician training in the program (including 243 programs that apparently did not have any active trainees). A total of 96.7% of all physicians in our database had their status confirmed (eg, active, graduated, transferred, or withdrawn). Physicians whose status was not confirmed were "advanced" into the next year of training (n = 3533 [2.8% of active residents]) or "graduated" based on expected graduation date (n = 1223 [2.9% of graduated residents and fellows]). In total, we estimate that there were 124 096 active residents in ACGMEaccredited programs during the 2016-2017 academic year. The following tables include data from these surveys.