Recent 2015 Match results are in and you can now see the full results of the impact that the Rank Order Lists (ROL) for the Match had this year. Interesting to note that average length of ROLs increased steadily (slowly) from 2002 – 2015 from approx 8 programs, to almost 12 programs for each applicant that matched (94.3%) matched in 2015, and for unmatched applicants the average ROL length was 7. Perhaps important to add a few more programs to your list when ranking your programs. Read more about NRMP Releases 2015 Match Results Including Rank Order Lists and Impact …
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Even Primary Care Residents Are Not Going Into Primary Care
According to the ACP, many residents in primary care track programs are no longer entering primary care. Many graduating residents are specializing.
Most internal medicine residents, even those in primary care residencies, don’t plan to practice general internal medicine, a recent survey found.
U.S. internal medicine residents were surveyed about their career plans while taking the Internal Medicine In-Training Examination (IM-ITE). Data were gathered from more than 57,000 residents who responded to the survey in 2009-2011. About a third of the responses came from third-year residents. Results were published in the Dec. 5 Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Median Hospitalist Income up in 2010
According to ACP Hospitalist, Internal Medicine hospitalist pay was up 2.4% in the last year. Read the full report Hospitalists in adult medicine reported an increase in median compensation from $215,000 to $220,619 in 2010, while pediatric hospitalists median compensation rose from $160,038 in 2009 to $171,617 in 2010. Though hospitalists earned more in 2010, […]
Latest Match Finds More Graduates Going into Internal Medicine
First reported by ACP Internist Weekly: The number of U.S. medical students choosing internal medicine residencies increased for the second consecutive year, according to results from the 2011 Match Day. The 2011 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) report, released on March 17, showed an 8% increase from last year, with 2,940 U.S. seniors at medical […]
NRMP to change the “Scramble” Beginning in 2010
For all you future NRMP match applicants, the NRMP has sought to make the process more fair and orderly with their new “SOAP” program: The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) have partnered to bring changes to the “Scramble†for unfilled positions during Match Week of the Main […]
Nova has updated their Doctor Diaries website and now has information on this new series. Over the past 22 years, NOVA has followed a group of seven doctors from their first day at Harvard Medical School in 1987. All young, bright, and accomplished, none of them could have predicted what it would take, personally and […]