AAFP announces good news for primary care in results of NRMP Match!

“Family physicians can make you feel better, and we can extend your life. There is great joy in adding to our family of family medicine and knowing our future colleagues will be doing amazing work. Whenever I see more and more people choosing family medicine, I see people choosing to invest in the health of our country, and then the health of our world,” said Margot Savoy, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Senior Vice President, Education, Inclusiveness and Physician Well-Being, AAFP. Dr. Savoy is also a Project Director and part of our WCC community.

The 2023 National Resident Matching Program® Main Residency Match results announced today delivered the largest class of family medicine residents in history, with 4,530 medical students and graduates matching into family medicine residency programs. This year, family medicine offered 5,107 residency positions, 172 more than in 2022.

This is the 14th consecutive year of growth in the number of family medicine positions in the NRMP Match. Offering more positions in the Match than any other specialty reflects the urgent need to expand family medicine residencies, which are distributed more broadly than any other specialty to training physicians in the communities that need them the most, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) .

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