Family Medicine Residency slots 91% filled after reduction in number of available slots.

According to today's AMA Morning News "More than half of this year's bumper crop of future physicians got their first choice in the annual residency match," but, "unfortunately, according to the American College of Physicians, the first choice of most of the 29,890 applicants was not a career in primary care," MedPage today "For this year's match, dermatology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, and otolaryngology 'were the most competitive specialties for medical school seniors.'" And, even though family medicine "reduced the number of residency slots by 101 this year...only 91 percent of the positions were filled, and most of the slots -- 58 percent -- were filled by international medical graduates."