From the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors

This year’s national Match Day results were somewhat encouraging to America’s family medicine residency program directors. This year, 73 more training slots in family medicine were offered than last year1 and US seniors fi lled 98 more positions than in 2009. How-ever, only 7.3 % of US medical school senior applicants matched with a family medicine residency program, and US schools are still producing fewer US family medicine residency entrants (only 44.8%) than medical schools of other nations. To put it in perspective, since 1999 the total of family medicine positions offered in the match has declined 635 positions (from 3,265 to 2,630), and fi lled positions have decreased 293 (from 2,697 to 2,404) as the nation struggles with exploding health care costs and access to primary care