Is it a red flag if a program had several unmatched positions?

[RadioRads71]

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I'm going to and stay anonymous and ambiguous with this post. I recently interviewed at a place that prior to my interviews I considered it to be a very good program. The interview seemed to go well and I really liked the place.

I was recently looking at the match data and was surprised to see that last year they matched less than half of their positions and the year before that they had a couple more unmatched spots.

Should this be a red flag for the program? Or is is perhaps that they are super picky with their own rank list?

 

[Gadofosveset]

It may or may not be. You're right that some programs are not the best a picking a rank list... It's sort of the same situation some med students get into, but in reverse... a program may not rank enough people and then get caught out.

More senior residents should be able to give you some insight into this, if you ask tactfully.

 

[PL198]

Or they don't want to rank that many people. Ie they'd rather get ortho people who don't match than someone who would be way down their list

 

[deleted564680]

Last year was also one of the worst years ever in rads as far as number of applicants. Most programs were taken off guard and did not perform a good match list or some are just plain unwilling to take DOs or low-MDs and prefer to SOAP a top-MD from ortho, nsg, ent, etc.
I wouldn't read too much into the unfilled spots unless it was something like 8 unfilled out of 10.
I know some high profile programs last year (U of Fl, U of Chicago, MCW to name a few) that went unfilled and no one would say those are bad programs.

 

[chronicidal]

I know some high profile programs last year (U of Fl, U of Chicago, MCW to name a few) that went unfilled and no one would say those are bad programs.

Unfilled programs 2015, by Doximity rank, with spots unfilled:

U of Wisconsin - 1
Henry Ford Hospital (Wayne State) - 1
U of Minnesota - 3 (out of 10)
U of Iowa - 1
U of Cincinnati - 2
U of Maryland - 2
U of Chicago - 3 (out of 8)
Medical College of Wisconsin - 6 (out of 8!)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Montefiore) - 3 (out of 9)
Penn State Hershey - 3 (out of 6)
Medical College of Georgia - 2
Mayo Clinic Arizona - 1
Loyola - 3
Temple - 1
Tufts - 3 (out of 6!)
U of Nebraska - 3
Albert Einstein Healthcare (Philadelphia) - 4
Rochester General Hospital - 4
U of Louisville - 1
SUNY HSC Brooklyn (Downstate) - 6 (out of 7!)
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson - 4 (out of 4!)
U of Florida-Gainesville - 4 (out of 11)
Creighton - 1

Others:
South Alabama - 3
UCLA-Harbor - 2
UConn - 1
FL Hospital - 1
Mt Sinai Miami - 2
Memorial Health (GA) - 2
Einstein Jacobi - 1
Presence St Francis - 2
Lahey Clinic - 2
Mt. Auburn Hospital - 2
St. Vincent - 1
Providence Hospital - 3
WSU/Detroit Med center - 8 (out of 10!)
Monmouth-NJ - 2
St. Barnabas - 2
Harlem Hospital - 2
Maimonides - 3
Nassau - 4
Lenox Hill - 2
Richmond University - 1
SUNY Upstate - 1
U of Rochester - 2
Case Western/MetroHealth Med Center - 5 (out of 5!!!)
U of Oklahoma - 2
Allegheny - 4
Drexel - 1
U of Tennessee Memphis - 1
U of Tennessee Knoxville - 4
Texas A&M - 5 (out of 7)
Eastern VA - 4 (out of 4)
Wheaton Franciscan - 1
WVU - 1
Baptist Health AL - 1
SIU - 1
U of IL St Francis - 1
Tulane - 1
Grand Rapids - 2
St. Joseph Mercy- Oakland - 1
University Hospital-Jackson MS - 2

 

[PharMed2016]

Does anyone have a list of programs that went into SOAP last year? Curious as to what types of programs went into SOAP.

 

[preDoGuy24]

Does anyone have a list of programs that went into SOAP last year? Curious as to what types of programs went into SOAP.

The list is literally above your post.


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[PharMed2016]

The list is literally above your post.
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I think the above is a partial list (unfilled programs) and does not include those that managed to SOAP their positions.

 

[preDoGuy24]

No you are incorrect the above is a list of unfilled programs pre-soap. I.e. The exact list that you are asking for.


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[RadioRads71]

That's crazy about MCW on that list.

Does anyone know anything about the case western metro health program? 5/5 not matched..