How do DOs do matching for specialties like OB, onco, neuro or surg?

[COMedic2Doc]

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My end goal right now is to just get in 🙂

+1. for both of us. Residency discussions will come with time and thankfully due to my time in the healthcare field I've discovered many fields that really interest me changing my original perspective of Trauma Surg..Trauma Surg.... Trauma Surg. It's still on my list but now others are as well.

 

[gyngyn]

In the NRMP "Charting Outcomes in the Match" for the application year 2012 (Table 2): 1240 1st year positions in Ob-gyn were offered, 1223 were filled in the match. 913/1240 were US Seniors (Allopathic), 211 were US non seniors (previous US allopathic graduates), 133 DO, 1 Canadian, 80 IMG (US), 72 nonUS IMG. This left 17 unfilled positions at the beginning of the secondary match, all of which were filled in that week.

 

[HooliganSnail]

When you realize that 30% of the primary care rankings is based upon the % of students matching in primary care, you'll be embarrassed to brag about the ranking.

Congrats! Our students mostly match into noncompetitive specialties!

As a metric it doesn't take into account that it could be what people wanted to do, or what people fell back into after not being competitive for another specialty.

I'm very aware how the rankings are created. Look up the MSUCOM match list, and tell me how many "non-competative" specialties are on the list.

 

[pattr]

Do you know if the gen surg residency is dually accredited or if it's just two separate programs. I would think it would be dually accredited, but from the website descriptions, it seems both have slightly different hospital affiliations.

https://www.arrowheadmedcenter.org/default.aspx?id=228

The Gen Surg residency is dually accredited (ACGME and AOA). It is a collaborative residency between Arrowhead Regional Medical Center and Kaiser Fontana, with some rotations at Loma Linda too.

 

[DrBowtie]

I'm very aware how the rankings are created. Look up the MSUCOM match list, and tell me how many "non-competative" specialties are on the list.

Well I just looked at your ACGME list (no comment on the DO matches and found:

Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH Neurology 1968180C0
Baystate Med Ctr-MA Internal Medicine 1286140C0
U Michigan Hosps-Ann Arbor Phys Medicine & Rehab 1293340A0
Baystate Med Ctr-MA Obstetrics-Gynecology 1286220C0
Sparrow Hospital-MI Neurology 1315180C0
Wright State Univ Boonshoft SOM-OH General Surgery 2011440C0
Hurley Medical Ctr-MI Obstetrics-Gynecology 1307220C0
Synergy Med Ed Alliance-MI Emergency Medicine 1320110C0
U Iowa Hosps and Clinics Psychiatry 1203400C0
Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH Anesthesiology 1968040C0
Michigan St Univ-Kalamazoo Medicine-Pediatrics 1314700C0
Beaumont Health System-MI Internal Medicine 1978140C0
UC Irvine Med Ctr-CA Family Medicine 1043120C0
Henry Ford HSC-MI Transitional/Anesthesiology 1300999P2
Henry Ford HSC-MI Anesthesiology 1300040A0
Henry Ford HSC-MI Neurology 1300180A0
Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH Ortho Surg/Non-Research 1968260C1
Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH Neurology 1968180C0
Rush University Med Ctr-IL Pediatrics 1147320C0
Henry Ford HSC-MI Transitional/Anesthesiology 1300999P2
Henry Ford HSC-MI Anesthesiology 1300040A0
WSU/Detroit Med Ctr-MI Neurology 1295180A0
Valley Consortium-CA Family Medicine 1444120C0
Med Coll Wisconsin Affil Hosps Pediatrics 1784320C0
St Joseph Mercy-Ann Arbor-MI Internal Medicine 1292140C0
Baystate Med Ctr-MA Anesthesiology-4 yr 1286040C0

Aside from the CCF Ortho, and perhaps the CCF Anesthesia and UWisc Peds, looks pretty unremarkable.

Just saying your arrogance about your school and "qualifications" is not based in reality.

 

[MedPR]

I'm very aware how the rankings are created. Look up the MSUCOM match list, and tell me how many "non-competative" specialties are on the list.

The majority of specialties are non-competitive.. IM, FM, Peds, OBGYN, Psych, Neuro, etc.

 

[HooliganSnail]

Well I just looked at your ACGME list (no comment on the DO matches and found:

Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH Neurology 1968180C0
Baystate Med Ctr-MA Internal Medicine 1286140C0
U Michigan Hosps-Ann Arbor Phys Medicine & Rehab 1293340A0
Baystate Med Ctr-MA Obstetrics-Gynecology 1286220C0
Sparrow Hospital-MI Neurology 1315180C0
Wright State Univ Boonshoft SOM-OH General Surgery 2011440C0
Hurley Medical Ctr-MI Obstetrics-Gynecology 1307220C0
Synergy Med Ed Alliance-MI Emergency Medicine 1320110C0
U Iowa Hosps and Clinics Psychiatry 1203400C0
Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH Anesthesiology 1968040C0
Michigan St Univ-Kalamazoo Medicine-Pediatrics 1314700C0
Beaumont Health System-MI Internal Medicine 1978140C0
UC Irvine Med Ctr-CA Family Medicine 1043120C0
Henry Ford HSC-MI Transitional/Anesthesiology 1300999P2
Henry Ford HSC-MI Anesthesiology 1300040A0
Henry Ford HSC-MI Neurology 1300180A0
Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH Ortho Surg/Non-Research 1968260C1
Cleveland Clinic Fdn-OH Neurology 1968180C0
Rush University Med Ctr-IL Pediatrics 1147320C0
Henry Ford HSC-MI Transitional/Anesthesiology 1300999P2
Henry Ford HSC-MI Anesthesiology 1300040A0
WSU/Detroit Med Ctr-MI Neurology 1295180A0
Valley Consortium-CA Family Medicine 1444120C0
Med Coll Wisconsin Affil Hosps Pediatrics 1784320C0
St Joseph Mercy-Ann Arbor-MI Internal Medicine 1292140C0
Baystate Med Ctr-MA Anesthesiology-4 yr 1286040C0

Aside from the CCF Ortho, and perhaps the CCF Anesthesia and UWisc Peds, looks pretty unremarkable.

Just saying your arrogance about your school and "qualifications" is not based in reality.

Are you serious, you just took a sample of twenty something matches out the entire class and based your analysis on that. Only 10% of MSUCOM students enter the ACGME match. The rest go into AOA residency programs because MSU does very well in that match on account of the fact that a huge chunk of AOA residencies are located in MI and associated with MSUCOM. Going to a school that gives you excellent networking opportunities is a good thing. 93% of MSUCOM grads enter their top choice specialty. Thats a fact. 40% specialize, 60% enter primary care. Fact. Most people choose to rank a specialty/program based on criteria other than how prestigious it is. Fact.

Choosing a speciality is a about lifestyle, where one wants to live/practice, and how long a person is willing to stay in residency. Either way you swing it MSUCOM gives every one of its students lots and lots of options, which is something that can not be said of other schools.

The reality is MSUCOM is a great school. You're obviously just one of those people who assume if you don't specialize then you must be too stupid to do so.

I stated a fact about how MSUCOM consistently ranks top 10% in primary care, you have to tear it down. I say it has a great match list, including many competitive specialties, you say "Not good enough". And further more you assume I say these things because I am uninformed about the data or are too "arrogant" to see reality. That makes you un-cool.