BALTIMORE (AP) — Despite nationwide efforts to encourage medical students to pursue primary-care specialties like pediatrics and internal medicine, most University of Maryland School of Medicine graduates are choosing other specialties.

This year, 57 percent of Maryland graduates will begin residencies in non-primary-care fields, the same percentage as last year’s graduating class and slightly more than the class of 2012, of which 51 percent chose non-primary-care fields.

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