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A Survey of United States General Psychiatry Residency Programs: Program Characteristics and Relationship to the 1994 National Residency Matching Program Results

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We developed a questionnaire regarding issues in psychiatric residency training and distributed it to the chief residents at all United States general psychiatry residency training programs. We hoped to examine psychiatry residency program characteristics and see if any particular characteristics had a significant relationship to improved success in the 1994 National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) results. We found that those programs with six or more PGY-1 positions available in the NRMP, those programs with an associated child and adolescent psychiatry residency training program, and those programs offering a research elective had a higher PGY-1 match through the NRMP than programs without these features.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL

    Glenn Catalano (Assistant Professor), Kathy Harnett Sheehan (Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL) & Saundra L. Stock (Resident Physician)

  2. TGH-University Psychiatry Center, Tampa, FL, 33613

    Maria C. Catalano (Assistant Professor)

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA

    Vicki A. Alberts (Resident Physician)

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Catalano, G., Catalano, M.C., Sheehan, K.H. et al. A Survey of United States General Psychiatry Residency Programs: Program Characteristics and Relationship to the 1994 National Residency Matching Program Results. Psychiatr Q 68, 167–185 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025457706039

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