MD & DO How competitive is integrated CT?

[zero0]

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I know cardiologists are stepping on their toes a little bit these days and CT fellowship competitiveness has died down as a result, but what about categorical spots?

 

[ndafife]

This past year there were 115 applicants for 84 slots. So it's had a resurgence in competitiveness

 

[libertyyne]

This past year there were 115 applicants for 84 slots. So it's had a resurgence in competitiveness

What were the median step scores like?

 

[Toast Chee]

What were the median step scores like?

Average Step 1/2 scores of the 2016-2017 I-6 Intern class according to the AAMC were 241 and 246 respectively.

 

[libertyyne]

 

[Toast Chee]

Also, preliminary numbers from ERAS show there were around 185 applicants for the 36 I-6 slots.

 

[libertyyne]

i wonder if it is related to TAVR volumes going up.

 

[ndafife]

What were the median step scores like?

I was looking at the specialty match data (general surgeons who do a thoracic surgery fellowship): http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Results-and-Data-SMS-2018.pdf
Doesn't really say a whole lot about Step scores, but just in 2014 it had a 92.4% match rate, then dropped to 72.8% in 2015 where it has settled the last couple years

 

[zero0]

Average Step 1/2 scores of the 2016-2017 I-6 Intern class according to the AAMC were 241 and 246 respectively.

So that makes it the least competitive surgical subspecialty, but only by a slight margin... aside from ob/gyn but who's counting

I know ortho, ENT, plastics, nsx... are all higher

Pretty sure uro and ophtho both have higher averages but they're so cryptic

 

[Anti-PD1]

There aren't that many programs:

Integrated Thoracic Surgery Residency Programs | TSDA

 

[Osteoth]

So that makes it the least competitive surgical subspecialty, but only by a slight margin... aside from ob/gyn but who's counting

I know ortho, ENT, plastics, nsx... are all higher

Pretty sure uro and ophtho both have higher averages but they're so cryptic

I'd bet money that the uro/ophtho averages are higher but their medians are lower.

 

[jw3600]

I'd bet money that the uro/ophtho averages are higher but their medians are lower.

Lol. How the hell did you come up with this?

 

[Anti-PD1]

Ophtho - 245
Ortho - 247
ENT - 249
Neurosurg - 249
Plastics - 250

Uro doesn't publish average Step 1.

 

[Osteoth]

Lol. How the hell did you come up with this?

Spent alot of time with one of those departments and from what I've heard and talked to people about it seems very incestuous how people figure out what programs to go to. Of course there are the big number people, but it seems like they're largely geographically independent and just want to go to the best program. The rest of the "average" crowd goes to their home institution or 1/3 of their away programs.

Ophtho - 245
Ortho - 247
ENT - 249
Neurosurg - 249
Plastics - 250

Uro doesn't publish average Step 1.

Ophtho publishes their averages?

 

[Anti-PD1]

Spent alot of time with one of those departments and from what I've heard and talked to people about it seems very incestuous how people figure out what programs to go to. Of course there are the big number people, but it seems like they're largely geographically independent and just want to go to the best program. The rest of the "average" crowd goes to their home institution or 1/3 of their away programs.



Ophtho publishes their averages?

https://sfmatch.org/PDFFilesDisplay/Ophthalmology_Residency_Stats_2018.pdf

 

[ERDOC555]

Average Step 1/2 scores of the 2016-2017 I-6 Intern class according to the AAMC were 241 and 246 respectively.

Where did you find this?

 

[Toast Chee]

Where did you find this?

Data and Analysis - AAMC