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Charting Outcomes uses the term "contiguous ranks" and I was wondering what that means?
http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2007.pdf
http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2007.pdf
Charting Outcomes uses the term "contiguous ranks" and I was wondering what that means?
http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2007.pdf
Umm I still don't get it, all the competitive residencies have a higher contiguous ranks. Does this mean the applicants ranked those programs higher than others or does it mean they listed a program more than once in their rankings (what above poster is saying)?
"In general, applicants are more likely to be successful if they rank more programs in their desired specialty. To quantify this aspect of applicant behavior, we tallied the number of programs ranked in the first-choice specialty before a program in another specialty appeared on the applicant's rank order list."
Contiguous means being adjacent to, so in this case it is the number of residency programs within the same specialty in a row that you rank before you rank a program within a different specialty. The idea being that if you want to get into a more competitive specialty, you'll need to rank more programs in that specialty before you start ranking your fall-back programs.