ERAS vs NRMP Statistics

[batdoc]

I'm a little confused as to the difference between the ERAS and NRMP Statistics.

https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/erasmdphd/ = ERAS statistics
http://www.nrmp.org/match-data/main-residency-match-data/ = NRMP statistics

What am I talking about?

If you look at the ERAS number of applicants to Anesthesiology (Table 38) there are 3, 699 applicants. If you look at the NRMP number of applicants to Anesthesiology (2012 - Table 1 - Page 4) there are 1, 721 applicants. Why the gigantic discrepancy?

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[Roberie]

Maybe it's partly due to DOs registering with eras but not participating in the nrmp match?

 

[batdoc]

Maybe it's partly due to DOs registering with eras but not participating in the nrmp match?

That would make sense - but Table 40-something shows that only ~600 DOs registered with ERAS for Anesthesiology. Still missing another 1000.

A better example is Pediatrics. ERAS shows 2, 384 USMGs (not including DOs) applied along with somewhere around 7600 IMGs. Jump to NRMP. It shows 1918 US Seniors and 3700 Total applicants... which is far less than the 10 000 ERAS shows.

 

[gutonc]

It's applications (ERAS) vs ranking (NRMP). All it takes to inflate the ERAS numbers is a few hundred Surgery applicants to apply to a couple of Gas programs as backup, or basically every single Derm applicant applying to at least 1 IM program as a backup.

 

[mvenus929]

Could potentially be IMGs sending out ERAS, but not getting any interviews, therefore not doing NRMP. While you can rank programs you didn't interview at, it's a pretty pointless exercise...