another match question

[TheMakinator]

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do residency programs have a way of limiting the number of students from their own medical school that match into their program? i.e., of the 8 spots available for a particular program, they don't want more than 4 future interns from their affiliated medical school. We have heard that several different departments have "set numbers" of their own students that they want - is there actually some way they can accomplish this with their rank list? In other words, do programs have a straight list like we do, or can they have two lists, and limit the number of people matching from a particular list? How do programs achieve that "set number", or is it sort of a crapshoot??

 

[Powder]

Programs have one list like us. The only way to limit the students from their school is for them to rank the students very low or not put them on their list at all.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I've never heard of programs having two final lists - they can only submit one to the NRMP for ranking. If a program wishes to limit the number of home students matching there, they can only do so by not ranking some or ranking them so low they surely wouldn't match (as noted above). Whether or not a program prefers its own, or has different qualifications, is up to them.