Awesome article in Oct JAAD - The integrity of the dermatology NRMP

[sensitive skin]

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http://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(09)01444-3/abstract

My favorite questionnaire question:
Question asked to the applicants and current residents: Did any dermatology program try to influence you by promising you incentives for ranking their program highly? (eg, future faculty position, special rotations)
Applicants - 5% yes, Residents - 3% yes
Program directors - 100% NO

Lovely article! Nothing was a surprise -- everybody knows that PD's across all specialties violate NRMP policy during their communication with applicants, but it was cool to see it bared to the public in a well-designed study. Hopefully Stanford knows how to keep their data hidden and truly anonymous - they obtained all the emails from ERAS (applicants), ABD (residents), and APD (program directors). I'd almost consider it borderline phishing.

 

[N-Surge]

Will be reading my JAAD soon. Interesting...

 

[2012mdc]

http://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(09)01444-3/abstract

My favorite questionnaire question:
Question asked to the applicants and current residents: Did any dermatology program try to influence you by promising you incentives for ranking their program highly? (eg, future faculty position, special rotations)
Applicants - 5% yes, Residents - 3% yes
Program directors - 100% NO

Lovely article! Nothing was a surprise -- everybody knows that PD's across all specialties violate NRMP policy during their communication with applicants, but it was cool to see it bared to the public in a well-designed study. Hopefully Stanford knows how to keep their data hidden and truly anonymous - they obtained all the emails from ERAS (applicants), ABD (residents), and APD (program directors). I'd almost consider it borderline phishing.

A few years ago a laptop was stolen at Stanford that contained a database with employee information. I was doing research there at the time and was given some identity theft protection (along with all the other employees) because of it

 

[Cirrus83]

Heh, who would expect anything other than 100% no from the PDs? Seriously, who'd be crazy enough to admit anything like that.
The numbers are actually a little bit lower than I expected from the applicant/resident end but then again if a program is so in love with you that they're offering stuff like that they're probably also offering a spot outside the match.

 

[DermMatch]

I find it interesting that Stanford wrote this article since they were known to have called at least one person promising a match during my cycle.