DO applicants applying PMR

[OR4life]

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I am newly interested in applying to PM&R so forgive my ignorance. Can someone explain the whole applying to advanced placement vs. categorical program situation.

For example if I want to apply to a TRI in a DO program and also apply to both Categorical and advanced placement programs (MD) how would that work? Is this possible or would I automatically be pulled out of the MD match if I matched TRI in the osteo match.

And because I would obviously want to maximize my chances, I would apply to both categorical and advanced placement programs which would would mean I would also have to apply to internships, so how does it work exactly?
If I matched advanced placement then I would also match an intern year?
If I matched categorical I would not be eligible for intern year?

I dunno if that made any sense, but i'm pretty confused about the whole thing.

 

[Want2Bdoc]

If you matched to a TRI you would be pulled from the allopathic categorical programs but not from the advanced ones.

 

[RangerBob]

The above is correct re: matching into a TRI--you'd no longer be eligible for any categorical PM&R programs. So think about whether you really want to do a TRI--if your top choice/choices are categorical, then I'd personally skip applying to TRI's. If most of your top choices are advanced, then go for it.

Regarding the MD match--you will have a supplemental match list for every advanced program. You can use the same supplemental match list (Prelim Program A, B, then C, etc.) or vary it with each advanced program.

Categorical programs won't have a supplemental list--the intern year is incorporated into the categorical residency. Usually that intern-year is tailored to PM&R in some form--see the UC Davis or UNC Chapel Hill PM&R PGY1 year, for example.

If you match into a categorical program, you're done. That's it! (But you can't do that if you match into a TRI). If you match into an advanced program, then what happens is you go through a second match process based on the supplemental list for that advanced program. You then match (hopefully) at a pre-lim on that list.

So usually the wise thing to do is rank all pre-lims you're willing to go to (or would prefer over SOAPing) on every supplemental list, but just changing the order based on the advanced program. Because you're in bad shape if you match advanced but not pre-lim, and there are people that were in that situation and then scrambled/SOAPed for a pre-lim surgery position.

 

[OR4life]

Thank you, that clears it up

 

[Charlie Bravo]

Actually, I believe it is up to you to withdraw from the allopathic match if you match osteopathic.