Most competitive residencies?

[OliverBrooklyn]

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I would assume it would be something like this (does anybodt know where there is a list of most to least competitive residencies

Radiology
Plastic Surgery
Dermatology
Anathesiology
Orthopedic surgery
family pratice

I am assuming it is all relative to the salary potential + hours , right?
everyone has the same idea of a good time right?

 

[EctopicFetus]

Most competitive Ill give you my top 5 in NO particular order (all are prob very similar).

NeuroSurgery, Urology, Plastic Surgery, Dermatology, Radiology

Least Competitive in my estimate of an order,

Internal Medicine, Peds, PM&R, Family

IM is very competitive at some programs due to the fellowships, same for Peds but to a lesser degree. FP is always leaving 30% or so of their spots open which makes it less competitive.

Your best source for some info is your school which may have the avg board scores from those that matched at your school by specialty.

 

[mpp]

For top 5 most competitve (using percent of U.S. seniors unmatched last year):
Radiation Oncology, Dermatology, ENT, Urology, Neurosurgery

For bottom 5 least competitive (using % of positions left unmatched last year):
Family medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Ob/Gyn, Internal medicine

 

[EctopicFetus]

Mpp, I didnt do too bad based on my own guessing. I would also add that I think Ob is struggling likely due to all the legal issues going on there. Additionally, I forgot about ENT, thats ultra competitive.

Straight Plastics is very hard to get I believe there are only 55 or so spots in the country and the avg Step I is well over 240. I think all this info helps the OP.

 

[skoobi]

For top 5 most competitve (using percent of U.S. seniors unmatched last year):
Radiation Oncology, Dermatology, ENT, Urology, Neurosurgery

For bottom 5 least competitive (using % of positions left unmatched last year):
Family medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Ob/Gyn, Internal medicine

hi mpp...could you list the source that you used? thanks

 

[mpp]

www.nrmp.org and look at the data tables. The head of the IM residency program at my school had a data table of unmatched rate by specialty. For ENT, neurosurgery, urology, etc. you have to check sfmatch or the urology match websites.

Plastics is probably right up there with the rest of the competitive ones. I didn't have the information for that sfmatch program.

 

[g3pro]

Anesthesiology is competitive? 😕 That's not what I've read...

 

[EctopicFetus]

g3pro I think he was putting it in some order as you can see we havent included that in our list. I have heard that it is getting more competitive. But on the OPs list it is only above FP as the other fields are all very competitive.

 

[OliverBrooklyn]

I was interested in Radiology because of my parents background in physics. I noticed the salary was quite high so I assumed the competition was cutthroat. This seems to be the general idea for all fields though.

 

[EctopicFetus]

Agreed the most competitive residencies tend to pay very well. I will offer this advice if you are sure you want to do Rads go for it! Someone is getting those spots so it might as well be you.

 

[DOCTORSAIB]

Might want to add Ophthalmology up there as well.. 😉

DOCTORSAIB

 

[Columbia22]

there are only 8 optho positions offered every year?? what the heck

 

[Mirror Form]

there are only 8 optho positions offered every year?? what the heck

ophtho matches through the san francisco match (sfmatch.org), instead of nrmp.

 

[exmike]

ophtho has about a 80% match.

 

[Willamette]

Look at this website to see how WashU looks at the numbers...

http://medicine.wustl.edu/~residenc/outside/spec/byspec.html

Look at each specialty to see how the last few classes have matched.



Willamette

 

[oudoc08]

Anesthesiology is kind of a year-to-year roller coaster as far as competiveness from what I hear.

 

[Mirror Form]

Look at this website to see how WashU looks at the numbers...

http://medicine.wustl.edu/~residenc/outside/spec/byspec.html

Look at each specialty to see how the last few classes have matched.



Willamette

good resource!

 

[cherry10101]

where would specialties like emergency medicine or neurology fit in?

 

[g3pro]

Anesthesiology is kind of a year-to-year roller coaster as far as competiveness from what I hear.

Competitiveness:

2003: Intermediate
2002: Intermediate
2001: Intermediate
2000: Low

😉

That's what I thought. 🙂

 

[mpp]

Neither EM or neurology are very competitive to land a spot (although there are specific programs in these specialties that are competitive) and more than 95% of U.S. grads that apply to these programs match somewhere.

 

[azzarah]

That's a great webpage...thanks for the link! 🙂

 

[azzarah]

mpp, I love tintin! 😀

 

[kchan99]

in comparison to something like radiology, how competitive are the combined neurology/psychiatry programs?

 

[Luck]

I believe the hardest residency to get into is IM closely followed by FP.

 

[Bermiedoc]

radiation oncology is one of the hardest residencies to get into also.

 

[WatchingWaiting]

in comparison to something like radiology, how competitive are the combined neurology/psychiatry programs?

If you want it, it's yours. Combine one non-competitive residency with another non-competitive residency, and you still have a not-hard-to-get-into residency.

 

[EctopicFetus]

radiation oncology is one of the hardest residencies to get into also.

Rad Onc is very competitive, there are about 7-8 VERY competitive residencies and the rest arent so bad.

 

[kchan99]

How competitive is Columbia psych (=good pay residency) compared with, say UCSF peds?

 

[jpro]

I went on the nrmp webpage and loaded the data on excell and did a little analysis. I ranked three columns: %filled positions, %filled programs, and number of ranks per position. I used all three columns to se which ones looked like they were the hardest to get into. They are ranked in decending order. This probably is not perfectly accurate, but it is interesting.

 

[drbrowneyes]

Very interesting. I family practice residencies seem to not get filled.
HMMM

 

[azzarah]

You have nuclear medicine as PGY2...I thought it was a fellowship after a radiology residency? Doesn't nuclear medicine deal with PET and stuff like that?

 

[jpro]

You have nuclear medicine as PGY2...I thought it was a fellowship after a radiology residency? Doesn't nuclear medicine deal with PET and stuff like that?

Nuclear Medicine does have its own residency. I don't know too much about it, but I know that if you do rads you can do most of nuclear medicine. I got all that info from nrmp.