Nursing

Residency coordinator turnover

Residency Program Insider, March 5, 2020

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Editor’s note: The following is an edited excerpt from Residency Program Alert’s (RPA) coverage of the 2019 Residency Coordinator Salary Survey, which can be accessed in the RPA archive here. Not an RPA member? Click here for more information about becoming an RPA subscriber. 


Conventional thinking has been that coordinators are the one constant in residency programs. Turnover rates among department chairs and program directors have been traditionally high, so it’s been up to the coordinators to maintain consistency over the years.

Our survey responses show that this is true to a point. As expected, many respondents have worked in GME for decades. However, many of the respondents are relatively new to the field—37% have five or fewer years’ experience working in GME (Figure 1).

Furthermore, survey responses show a larger crop of coordinators in new roles. Fourteen percent of respondents reported being in their position for less than a year (Figure 2), an increase of 5% from our previous survey in 2017. On the other end, the percentage of coordinators who have been in their positions for 25 or more years has decreased by 2%.



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