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Facts & Figures: Resident expert

Training tomorrow's doctors

104,521
Total number of medical residents training in the U.S. (residents are physicians who have graduated from medical school and are doing added training for their licensure; they provide care at teaching hospitals under the supervision of faculty physicians)

3 to 8
Number of years typically required to complete residency, depending on the specialty

8,227
Number of accredited residency programs in the U.S.

1944
Year residency programs were established at Hitchcock

315
Number of residents in New Hampshire in 2003-04

46
Number of accredited residency and fellowship programs at DHMC

329
Number of residents and clinical fellows at DHMC

12
Number of states with fewer than 400 medical residents

SOURCES: DHMC AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION; DHMC FIGURES ARE 2004; OTHERS ARE 2005 UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE


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