Chances for osteopathic student to "scramble" into unfilled positions?

[StrivingSurge13]

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Hello all. I am a current 4th year Osteopathic student who unfortunately failed to match Peds in the AOA match. I have a couple possible routes to follow at this point. One of which is to participate in the NRMP scramble ( or SOAP i guess its called now) and try to gain a position in either one of the dually accredited AOA/ACGME programs or even strictly ACGME programs. However, as a DO student who didn't take a USMLE I'm unsure about my chances, and in fact unsure about, historically, how many unfilled positions are usually available in Peds post match. Any info to help shed light on this situation would be MUCH appreciated.

Thanks so much in advance!

 

[Nibby]

Hey,
Obviously it varies yearly, but here is the list of spots that were available during last years SOAP.
http://www.healthsciences.okstate.e...ts/unfilled programs last update 03192012.pdf

Hope that helps to at least have some idea of areas that seemed to not fill.

 

[StrivingSurge13]

Thanks! that is exactly what I was looking for. I found the data on the NRMP site but it wasn't organized by specialty so it was harder to find what I was looking for.

 

[Jessipeds]

You can also do the AOA scramble to match Peds. There are a good number of spots open!

 

[StrivingSurge13]

You can also do the AOA scramble to match Peds. There are a good number of spots open!

Unfortunately most of the AOA programs are dually accredited and have told me that they are reverting their open spots to the allopathic match...