Take a peek at the NRMP’s recently-published Results and Data: Specialty Matching Service. This information is not as granular or useful as Charting Outcomes of the Match (focused on the residency Match), but it’s still helpful to see what percentage of a subspecialty goes unfilled. (Geriatrics had 77% unfilled in the most recent cycle. Gastroenterology had 1.5%.) The trends year over year are also instructive.
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Making a List and Checking it Twice: The Fellowship Match Checklist
The 2018-9 Fellowship Match process is heating up. The NRMP recently posted a brief but useful fellowship match check list with links to important dates for all fellowship matches.
As many of you may know, the range of time frames varies tremendously among the different fields – from abdominal transplant surgery (now) to adolescent medicine (autumn) – so it’s worth taking a look at this information even if you just matched for residency, believe it or not.
Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital. She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more
