AACOM report on 2017 match results

[2021Doctor]

http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-s...-grad-placements-in-2017-matches.pdf?sfvrsn=8

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[Goro]

Excellent numbers! Many thanks for sharing! My kids did quite well this year, despite that Class being less than stellar.

 

[hallowmann]

http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-s...-grad-placements-in-2017-matches.pdf?sfvrsn=8

Alright, let's do this:

The 2017 DO match rate (as in true match rate) for all seniors seeking GME is between 88.7% and 89.2% (compared to between 87.2% and 88.4% for 2016). For reference, the US MD seniors 2017 match rate was 94.3% (compared to 93.8% in 2016).

The range is due to the lack of breakdown of the 166 DOs that SOAPed into seniors vs. past graduates. At least 139 seniors attained positions in the SOAP (compared to 69 in 2016). If all of the other DOs who SOAPed were seniors, the match rate would be 88.7%. If all of the other DOs that SOAPed were previous graduates, the match rate would be 89.2%. There appeared to be only 27 previous DO graduates that attained positions in the NRMP match or SOAP (less than half compared to last year). Based on all this, the true match rate is likely somewhere between 88.7% and 89.2%.

The corrected DO senior NRMP match rate is somewhere between 87.5% and 88.3% (compared to between 86.4% and 88.8% in 2016), again varied depending on the breakdown of the SOAP. 3323 DO seniors (compared to 2699 in 2016) and 267 previous DO graduates (compared to 283 in 2016) participated in the NRMP match. 3072 DO seniors (compared to 2465 in 2016) attained positions in the NRMP match and SOAP.

The combined 2017 DO senior and graduates NRMP match rate is the reported 81.7% (compared to 80.3% in 2016). For comparison, the combined US MD senior and graduate NRMP match rate was 90.7% (compared to 90.3% in 2016).

The 2017 placement rate of DO seniors is 99.34% (compared to 99.61% in 2016) meaning that 39 current seniors (0.66%) that wanted GME failed to attain it (compared to 21 - 0.39% - in 2016). An additional 47 ( compared to 43 in 2016) did not wish to attain GME this year.

463 current DO seniors scrambled into AOA spots (compared to 535 in 2016), which constitutes 7.8% (compared to ~10% in 2016) of current DO seniors seeking GME this year. Somewhere between 139 and 166 current DO seniors attained positions in the SOAP, representing between 2.3% and 2.8% of current DO seniors. The 10.1% to 10.6% that attained positions in the SOAP or scramble is the majority of the remaining 10.8%-11.3% unmatched seniors that placed.

Conclusions:
-DO match rate appears to have gone up slightly compared to last year. It went up at least 0.3% (at most 2%), and this is pretty consistent with the US MD match rate which went up 0.5%.
-More DOs this year went without a GME position than compared to last year (39 vs 21). This is partially due to a lower placement rate (99.34% vs. 99.61%) and likely partially due to an overall increase in DO seniors this year compared to last year (5937 vs. 5377 - yes, that is a 560 increase of DO seniors seeking GME in one year). That said, you can also say undoubtedly that more (the number of) DOs matched and placed this year compared to last.
-More DO seniors SOAPed this year, compared to last year (double - 70). This can mean a couple of things. For one there are more DO seniors. For another, it probably means more DOs accepted positions in the SOAP as opposed to scrambling post-NRMP into an open AOA spot.
-Placement of DOs in AOA programs is down significantly from last year to this year (43% in 2017 compared to 49% in 2016). In turn the number placing into ACGME positions increased reciprocally from 46% in 2016 to 52% in 2017.
-The number of DO seniors not seeking GME this year went up by 4, but is almost exactly the same percentage of DO seniors as last year (~0.8%), so this isn't alarming.
-Overall, good job to the class of 2017!


The sources of this data can be found here:
-AACOM placement report - http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-s...-grad-placements-in-2017-matches.pdf?sfvrsn=8
-NRMP match report - http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Main-Match-Results-and-Data-2017.pdf

 

[corporateflea]

Alright, let's do this:

The 2017 DO match rate (as in true match rate) for all seniors seeking GME is between 88.7% and 89.2% (compared to between 87.2% and 88.4% for 2016). For reference, the US MD seniors 2017 match rate was 94.3% (compared to 93.8% in 2016).

The range is due to the lack of breakdown of the 166 DOs that SOAPed into seniors vs. past graduates. At least 139 seniors attained positions in the SOAP (compared to 69 in 2016). If all of the other DOs who SOAPed were seniors, the match rate would be 88.7%. If all of the other DOs that SOAPed were previous graduates, the match rate would be 89.2%. There appeared to be only 27 previous DO graduates that attained positions in the NRMP match or SOAP (less than half compared to last year). Based on all this, the true match rate is likely somewhere between 88.7% and 89.2%.

The corrected DO senior NRMP match rate is somewhere between 87.5% and 88.3% (compared to between 86.4% and 88.8% in 2016), again varied depending on the breakdown of the SOAP. 3323 DO seniors (compared to 2699 in 2016) and 267 previous DO graduates (compared to 283 in 2016) participated in the NRMP match. 3072 DO seniors (compared to 2465 in 2016) attained positions in the NRMP match and SOAP.

The combined 2017 DO senior and graduates NRMP match rate is the reported 81.7% (compared to 80.3% in 2016). For comparison, the combined US MD senior and graduate NRMP match rate was 90.7% (compared to 90.3% in 2016).

The 2017 placement rate of DO seniors is 99.34% (compared to 99.61% in 2016) meaning that 39 current seniors (0.66%) that wanted GME failed to attain it (compared to 21 - 0.39% - in 2016). An additional 47 ( compared to 43 in 2016) did not wish to attain GME this year.

463 current DO seniors scrambled into AOA spots (compared to 535 in 2016), which constitutes 7.8% (compared to ~10% in 2016) of current DO seniors seeking GME this year. Somewhere between 139 and 166 current DO seniors attained positions in the SOAP, representing between 2.3% and 2.8% of current DO seniors. The 10.1% to 10.6% that attained positions in the SOAP or scramble is the majority of the remaining 10.8%-11.3% unmatched seniors that placed.

Conclusions:
-DO match rate appears to have gone up slightly compared to last year. It went up at least 0.3% (at most 2%), and this is pretty consistent with the US MD match rate which went up 0.5%.
-More DOs this year went without a GME position than compared to last year (39 vs 21). This is partially due to a lower placement rate (99.34% vs. 99.61%) and likely partially due to an overall increase in DO seniors this year compared to last year (5937 vs. 5377 - yes, that is a 560 increase of DO seniors seeking GME in one year). That said, you can also say undoubtedly that more (the number of) DOs matched and placed this year compared to last.
-More DO seniors SOAPed this year, compared to last year (double - 70). This can mean a couple of things. For one there are more DO seniors. For another, it probably means more DOs accepted positions in the SOAP as opposed to scrambling post-NRMP into an open AOA spot.
-Placement of DOs in AOA programs is down significantly from last year to this year (43% in 2017 compared to 49% in 2016). In turn the number placing into ACGME positions increased reciprocally from 46% in 2016 to 52% in 2017.
-The number of DO seniors not seeking GME this year went up by 4, but is almost exactly the same percentage of DO seniors as last year (~0.8%), so this isn't alarming.
-Overall, good job to the class of 2017!


The sources of this data can be found here:
-AACOM placement report - http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-s...-grad-placements-in-2017-matches.pdf?sfvrsn=8
-NRMP match report - http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Main-Match-Results-and-Data-2017.pdf

Excellent analysis. Thanks

 

[W19]

This tell us that if you graduate from a US school (MD or DO), you are guaranteed to be a family physician or a pathologist... Good to know that I am not gambling in Vegas with that 270k. And I was told one can make 300k/year as a FM doc... So I gotta to ask that question again: Why do people go to the Caribbean?

 

[DetectiveAlonzo]

Oh... this thread gonna be goooood.

 

[deleted831695]

This tell us that if you graduate from a US school (MD or DO), you are guaranteed to be at least a family physician or a pathologist... Good to know that I am not gambling in Vegas with that 270k. And I was told one can make 300k/year as a FM doc... So I gotta to ask that question again: Why do people go to the Caribbean?

Assuming that's what you meant?

 

[W19]

Assuming that's what you meant?

Well, yeah!

 

[Ho0v-man]

Alright, let's do this:

The 2017 DO match rate (as in true match rate) for all seniors seeking GME is between 88.7% and 89.2% (compared to between 87.2% and 88.4% for 2016). For reference, the US MD seniors 2017 match rate was 94.3% (compared to 93.8% in 2016).

The range is due to the lack of breakdown of the 166 DOs that SOAPed into seniors vs. past graduates. At least 139 seniors attained positions in the SOAP (compared to 69 in 2016). If all of the other DOs who SOAPed were seniors, the match rate would be 88.7%. If all of the other DOs that SOAPed were previous graduates, the match rate would be 89.2%. There appeared to be only 27 previous DO graduates that attained positions in the NRMP match or SOAP (less than half compared to last year). Based on all this, the true match rate is likely somewhere between 88.7% and 89.2%.

The corrected DO senior NRMP match rate is somewhere between 87.5% and 88.3% (compared to between 86.4% and 88.8% in 2016), again varied depending on the breakdown of the SOAP. 3323 DO seniors (compared to 2699 in 2016) and 267 previous DO graduates (compared to 283 in 2016) participated in the NRMP match. 3072 DO seniors (compared to 2465 in 2016) attained positions in the NRMP match and SOAP.

The combined 2017 DO senior and graduates NRMP match rate is the reported 81.7% (compared to 80.3% in 2016). For comparison, the combined US MD senior and graduate NRMP match rate was 90.7% (compared to 90.3% in 2016).

The 2017 placement rate of DO seniors is 99.34% (compared to 99.61% in 2016) meaning that 39 current seniors (0.66%) that wanted GME failed to attain it (compared to 21 - 0.39% - in 2016). An additional 47 ( compared to 43 in 2016) did not wish to attain GME this year.

463 current DO seniors scrambled into AOA spots (compared to 535 in 2016), which constitutes 7.8% (compared to ~10% in 2016) of current DO seniors seeking GME this year. Somewhere between 139 and 166 current DO seniors attained positions in the SOAP, representing between 2.3% and 2.8% of current DO seniors. The 10.1% to 10.6% that attained positions in the SOAP or scramble is the majority of the remaining 10.8%-11.3% unmatched seniors that placed.

Conclusions:
-DO match rate appears to have gone up slightly compared to last year. It went up at least 0.3% (at most 2%), and this is pretty consistent with the US MD match rate which went up 0.5%.
-More DOs this year went without a GME position than compared to last year (39 vs 21). This is partially due to a lower placement rate (99.34% vs. 99.61%) and likely partially due to an overall increase in DO seniors this year compared to last year (5937 vs. 5377 - yes, that is a 560 increase of DO seniors seeking GME in one year). That said, you can also say undoubtedly that more (the number of) DOs matched and placed this year compared to last.
-More DO seniors SOAPed this year, compared to last year (double - 70). This can mean a couple of things. For one there are more DO seniors. For another, it probably means more DOs accepted positions in the SOAP as opposed to scrambling post-NRMP into an open AOA spot.
-Placement of DOs in AOA programs is down significantly from last year to this year (43% in 2017 compared to 49% in 2016). In turn the number placing into ACGME positions increased reciprocally from 46% in 2016 to 52% in 2017.
-The number of DO seniors not seeking GME this year went up by 4, but is almost exactly the same percentage of DO seniors as last year (~0.8%), so this isn't alarming.
-Overall, good job to the class of 2017!


The sources of this data can be found here:
-AACOM placement report - http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-s...-grad-placements-in-2017-matches.pdf?sfvrsn=8
-NRMP match report - http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Main-Match-Results-and-Data-2017.pdf

Please don't become a busy resident and stop posting. Your analysis is very appreciated.

 

[grapefruit17]

Most of the dos who don't match apply beyond their means. Even if you're an average student, a lot of things are open to you.

Too bad the path job market is sp terrible, I thought that would be interesting to go into. I think we only had like one person even apply path from our school..