New Doximity Rankings

[EMhopeful2020]

I know most people do not care for these rankings but let's be real, whether or not they should, they have a significant impact on applicants every year. The new one for this season is up. Wanted to post a thread for people to share their thoughts on changes and for dozens of people to say how these rankings don't matter (which I tend to agree with).

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[RPedigo]

I think randomly surveying (which appears to be the methodology) probably does not lead to accurate results, especially because each evaluating resident/graduate has (usually) a n=1 for residencies to train at. Unless their methodology is well-described, which I could not easily find, I would not put too much stock into that ranking. There really is not a great objective way to grade residency programs, since what is a good fit for one applicant may not be a good fit for another. I also say this as faculty from a program which is always extremely highly-ranked on these ratings, for whatever that is worth.

 

[Stephanopolous]

I don’t even know what this is tbh

 

[Rekt]

I know most people do not care for these rankings but let's be real, whether or not they should, they have a significant impact on applicants every year. The new one for this season is up. Wanted to post a thread for people to share their thoughts on changes and for dozens of people to say how these rankings don't matter (which I tend to agree with).

Source? Pretty much 99% of the people I know who went into EM and applicants I met along the way structured the top of their rank list by location and fit.

The people chasing the perceived prestige or name of a program are going to go those programs regardless if they actually provide superior EM training or not and regardless of what Doximity says.

 

[EMhopeful2020]

Well that's the thing, other than word of mouth, there isn't a great way for applicants to know what placed have high perceived prestige. Sure, there will be people that go to MGH or Stanford because of a general public prestige. But within the field, perceived prestige is different than in, let's say, internal medicine, where the expected institutions are prestigious (Harvard, Hopkins, UCSF, etc). County hospitals that no one outside of medicine, or even in medicine, have ever heard of (i.e Hennepin, Denver Health, Cincinatti) have more perceived prestige in EM than in other fields. So in that sense, I do think applicants look at this and get a sense of which programs have that perceived prestige you mention.

Is it anyone's deciding factor? maybe. probably not. Is it in the minds of many type-A competitive med students as they make their rank list? I don't think we need a source to answer that question.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

No one gives a s*it about the Doximity rankings, so much so that my former program won't even ask us to fill out the survey.

Keep in mind no one in the specialty cares about it, other than the people asking their residents and alumni to fill out the survey.

Well that's the thing, other than word of mouth, there isn't a great way for applicants to know what placed have high perceived prestige. Sure, there will be people that go to MGH or Stanford because of a general public prestige. But within the field, perceived prestige is different than in, let's say, internal medicine, where the expected institutions are prestigious (Harvard, Hopkins, UCSF, etc). County hospitals that no one outside of medicine, or even in medicine, have ever heard of (i.e Hennepin, Denver Health, Cincinatti) have more perceived prestige in EM than in other fields. So in that sense, I do think applicants look at this and get a sense of which programs have that perceived prestige you mention.

Is it anyone's deciding factor? maybe. probably not. Is it in the minds of many type-A competitive med students as they make their rank list? I don't think we need a source to answer that question.

 

[Brigade4Radiant]

Lol Doximity ratings in EM

 

[BoardingDoc]

they have a significant impact on applicants every year.

Umm, what? I don't know of anyone who has looked at doximity and had it affect their rank list.
Geography. 3 vs 4 year program. That crap matters. I have literally never heard of anyone using doximity to figure out where they should go in EM.

 

[gamerEMdoc]

Yeah, its no doubt a ridiculous ranking system. Just go where you want to go. Worrying about some “prestige” like it at all matters when you are done is silly. Live in the location you want, work with the people you want.

 

[cyanide12345678]

The top of my rank list wasn't affected by doximity. The middle half was somewhat affected because to me all programs felt the same in the middle and i didn't really have much to differentiate the programs with.

The end of my program list didn't change because there were a couple of programs that I just didn't like that ended up at the end.

My wife's program was the last 3rd on the list in the family medicine list for the last 2 years. These rankings don't make sense. Today that program jumped up by a 100 spots at least and ended up in the middle. The program was the lowest ranked in our city, and now suddenly it's the highest ranked. Rankings seem arbitrary.

 

[oldtown]

wbere in the hell did Doximity come from anyway. I never signed up or asked to join or be involved in any way when they started years back. But, somehow they had my email address and created a profile for me by virtue of people "in my network" (med school/residency classmates, current colleagues, etc." having signed up for it. It seems to me that they mine people's contacts lists after they sign up and spray emails out to the physicians in the network.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never logged in or given it the time of day- I've only seen the emails they send with my supposed network, and refuse to participate in any way

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Same way I started getting hit by TH and half a dozen locums companies. Internet.

wbere in the hell did Doximity come from anyway. I never signed up or asked to join or be involved in any way when they started years back. But, somehow they had my email address and created a profile for me by virtue of people "in my network" (med school/residency classmates, current colleagues, etc." having signed up for it. It seems to me that they mine people's contacts lists after they sign up and spray emails out to the physicians in the network.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never logged in or given it the time of day- I've only seen the emails they send with my supposed network, and refuse to participate in any way

 

[oldtown]

Same way I started getting hit by TH and half a dozen locums companies. Internet.

Yeah, I get the part about tracking ME down, that info's out there. What creeps me out is how all of the people they suggest to me are people I went to school with, trained with, or currently work with. I guess it just takes a few people to sign up for it (maybe not even), and then they can connect the dots.

 

[Shufflin]

the marketing ploy Doximity is trying to achieve is to become more of an authority in the medical community. thats why they created rankings, to appear more authoritative - it's all business! dont buy into the crass commercialism. Doximity is laughable.

 

[thegenius]

I've never heard of doximity
I just applied to a bunch of residencies and got in.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

They can also probably just buy the info from other sites without your friends/colleagues even actually using Doximity

Yeah, I get the part about tracking ME down, that info's out there. What creeps me out is how all of the people they suggest to me are people I went to school with, trained with, or currently work with. I guess it just takes a few people to sign up for it (maybe not even), and then they can connect the dots.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Fact: US News and World Report rankings have almost nothing to do with an individual's actual college experience or opportunities. Doximity is like that, but less useful (than I thing many think is useless).

the marketing ploy Doximity is trying to achieve is to become more of an authority in the medical community. thats why they created rankings, to appear more authoritative - it's all business! dont buy into the crass commercialism. Doximity is laughable.

 

[enalli]

 

[Groove]

What's wrong with doximity? At least they don't have bogus evaluations that all your disgruntled drug seekers can click on to give you a one star that stays on the internet forever and is impossible to refute or challenge.

Personally, I like what they are doing. It's kind of a LinkedIn for healthcare and, at least on the surface, appears better protected from bogus evaluations by patients or fake accounts. If they want to rank residences or anything for that matter to help bolster the illusion of credibility and/or provide additional content on their network, more power to them.