MD & DO [AMA] Match Day 2024 press release

[Mr.Smile12]

Inside Match Day 2024: Nearly 39,000 matches—and some surprises

Record-high match rate for DOs, and one primary care specialty saw an unexpected number of unfilled slots. Learn more with the AMA.

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In 2023, the surprising Match Day development was an unexpected rise in the number of unfilled positions in emergency medicine. That specialty rebounded in 2024 with a 95.5% fill rate, up 13.9 percentage points over last year.

This year, pediatrics showed a jump in unfilled positions. In the 2024 Match, pediatrics offered 3,139 categorical and filled 2,887, resulting in a fill rate of 92%, compared to 97.1% in 2023.

Match Data

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[medschoolaspirant]

Inside Match Day 2024: Nearly 39,000 matches—and some surprises

Record-high match rate for DOs, and one primary care specialty saw an unexpected number of unfilled slots. Learn more with the AMA.

www.ama-assn.org

In 2023, the surprising Match Day development was an unexpected rise in the number of unfilled positions in emergency medicine. That specialty rebounded in 2024 with a 95.5% fill rate, up 13.9 percentage points over last year.

This year, pediatrics showed a jump in unfilled positions. In the 2024 Match, pediatrics offered 3,139 categorical and filled 2,887, resulting in a fill rate of 92%, compared to 97.1% in 2023.

Match Data

Core to the NRMP’s mission is the development and distribution of data reports and publications that inform national conversations about the transition to residency and advance understanding of the…

www.nrmp.org

Please correct me, if I am wrong. This whole debate of step 1 pass/fail, didnt change much of data of how match result has been in past. Competitive speciality, like anesthesia. Ob gyn. All surgical sub speciality like ortho. Derm. Ent. Etc… continues to remain as competitive as before. Primary care remains as unfilled as before. with exception of shift between EM and Peds. Last year what happened to EM, happened to Peds this year. EM recovered. So to me, nothing much changed with step 1 change from landscape of competitveness of specialities.

 

[mrbreakfast]

Please correct me, if I am wrong. This whole debate of step 1 pass/fail, didnt change much of data of how match result has been in past. Competitive speciality, like anesthesia. Ob gyn. All surgical sub speciality like ortho. Derm. Ent. Etc… continues to remain as competitive as before. Primary care remains as unfilled as before. with exception of shift between EM and Peds. Last year what happened to EM, happened to Peds this year. EM recovered. So to me, nothing much changed with step 1 change from landscape of competitveness of specialities.

It can sometimes be more challenging to draw conclusions from the advance data releases. For example, "emergency medicine rebounded;" i.e. MD matches increased by <1%, DO matches increased by 47%. "Pediatrics showed a jump in unfilled positions" = pediatrics applications dropped 1.6% from the prior three-year average, new peds spots jumped 4.6% from the prior three-year average. They just created a bunch of new spots they didn't fill. Etc. We'll have to wait for the next charting outcomes to draw real conclusions.