Charting Outcomes Ranking Question

[agranulocytosis]

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I'm having a bit of difficulty figuring out what to make of the number of "Contiguous Ranks" for a given specialty (General Surgery).

As I have it right now, my ROL has 17 ranks, but 11 distinct programs. This is because of those programs where I interviewed for a categorical position, I went ahead and ranked their prelim program as well. So 6 categorical invites=12 ranks, and 5 prelim invites makes the total 17.

I understand that there is more to the data than what's published, like interview performance and other various intangibles, but there is a huge difference in the data set and I just wanted to know if the number of contiguous ranks takes double-ranking into account.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

The report would consider prelim surgery and cat surgery two different fields. Hence, you have 6 continuous ranks in categorical surgery.

 

[agranulocytosis]

Dang, didn't realize that. I thought since it was subdivided into specialties that prelim and cat would be one in the same. I stand corrected. Thanks!