Pain fellowship matching statistics

[Machinery]

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Does anyone know any of these things?

1) Match statistics for pain fellowship applications last year.
2) How many programs you have to interview to have a decent shot at matching.
3) Match statistics for anesthesia residents applying to pain.

Thanks.

 

[Orin]

1) Match statistics for pain fellowship applications last year.
2) How many programs you have to interview to have a decent shot at matching.
3) Match statistics for anesthesia residents applying to pain.

http://www.nrmp.org/match-data/fellowship-match-data/
They have the "NRMP Results and Data Specialties Matching Service, 2014 Appointment Year"

Match rate of 64% overall, 71% for US grads, with 1.5 applicants per position, but that only covers the 82/96 pain programs involved with NRMP.

Looking at the numbers, with 1205 ranks for the 262 US applicants and 1722 ranks for the whole 398 applicant pool, that approximates to between 4 and 5 ranked positions per applicant on average.

No statistics for the applicants were provided.

 

[Machinery]

Thanks Orin, seems like a pretty rough year. 29% Unmatched

 

[anbuitachi]

wonder why.. when pain medicine received such cuts, competition goes up? haha

 

[Disciple]

Because it hasn't bottomed out yet.

 

[emd123]

wonder why.. when pain medicine received such cuts, competition goes up? haha

I think pain is viewed as a lifestyle specialty, since the hours can be Derm-like in the right setup. A certain amount of people will want to do it for that reason alone, even some for less money than if they didn't do a fellowship. I get why. Being in a hospital at 3 am on major holidays, weekends, nights, post call on kids birthday, etc, does suck mightily.

 

[Taus]

My co-fellows are anesthesiologists. They were initially a little bummed to see their job offers not be much higher, if at all, than their colleagues who practice OR anesthesia. I then asked them what it's worth to never work a night, weekend or holiday again..... they are all very content, not to mention enjoy what they do.

 

[Disciple]

wonder why.. when pain medicine received such cuts, competition goes up? haha

I should add, for Anesthesiologists, it still has the factors of lifestyle and being your own boss.

For Physiatrists? You may see increasing numbers opting for the sports fellowships in the coming years.

 

[anbuitachi]

I should add, for Anesthesiologists, it still has the factors of lifestyle and being your own boss.

For Physiatrists? You may see increasing numbers opting for the sports fellowships in the coming years.

Interesting... what about neurologists? haha

 

[Disciple]

Neurology has never really had a huge representation amongst pain doctors. I'm sure a few were enticed by the procedures to choose the pain pathway.

Now, it's probably no better or worse than their other fellowships.

 

[drusso]

I should add, for Anesthesiologists, it still has the factors of lifestyle and being your own boss.

For Physiatrists? You may see increasing numbers opting for the sports fellowships in the coming years.

... and subsequently starving. 🙂 Not to bash our sports colleagues, it's a great field...just hard to feed yourself and your family. And, the hard-core sports guys end up side-lining all the high school and collegiate sporting events they can, at least in the beginning to build their practice, so there goes the lifestyle!

 

[Taus]

Several of my friends who went the sports route are hitting some roadblocks in the job hunt bc they don't do spine procedures. Most aren't taking care of athletes either ..... mainly subacute/chronic msk + emg +\- ultrasound with Ortho groups. The ones doing true sports are with academic departments.

 

[bedrock]

Several of my friends who went the sports route are hitting some roadblocks in the job hunt bc they don't do spine procedures. Most aren't taking card if athletes either ..... mainly general msk + emg +\- ultrasound with Ortho groups. The ones doing true sports are with academic departments.

Exactly. I've seen all of the above. Lots of PMR folks like to delude themselves that they are sports doctors, when they see a fresh sports injury once a quarter.

Outside of academics, an extremely small slice of PMR sports docs actually do sports for the majority of their practice.

 

[Got Em]

http://www.nrmp.org/match-data/fellowship-match-data/
They have the "NRMP Results and Data Specialties Matching Service, 2014 Appointment Year"

Match rate of 64% overall, 71% for US grads, with 1.5 applicants per position, but that only covers the 82/96 pain programs involved with NRMP.

Looking at the numbers, with 1205 ranks for the 262 US applicants and 1722 ranks for the whole 398 applicant pool, that approximates to between 4 and 5 ranked positions per applicant on average.

No statistics for the applicants were provided.

Saw that the 2015 stats had a match rate of 72% overall. How did you get the % for US grads??? I couldn't find it on the pdf. Thanks.

 

[Orin]

Saw that the 2015 stats had a match rate of 72% overall. How did you get the % for US grads??? I couldn't find it on the pdf. Thanks.

Math based on the numbers given in the data tables.

Match rate of 72% comes from 286 total positions for 397 total applicants.
US grads made up 266 of the 397 total applicants. 196 US grads matched for a rate of ~73.6%

1347 ranks for 266 US grads or 2017 ranks for 397 applicants means folks are ranking 5 places on average, which is up from last year.
The majority of matches occur in the first 3 on the rank list.