The primary data sources for this report include the American Medical Association 2011 Physician Masterfile, population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and the AAMC/AMA National Graduate Medical Education Census.
Here are the top five specialties that have the highest percentages of active physicians who are practicing in the same state where they completed their graduate medical education and training:
• Child and adolescent psychiatry — 57.4 percent
• Psychiatry — 56.4 percent
• Family medicine/general practice — 56.3 percent
• Internal medicine/pediatrics — 56 percent
• Geriatric medicine — 54.5 percent
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