residency fill rates

[felicity]

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hi all,
i was just wondering where i find out if schools filled or not? i tried to look in freida but this didnt help, it just tells me how many residents they had each year.
just a thought. sometimes it seems so darn hard to figure out which programs are "competitive" or not. the reason id like to know is so that when i make my rank list i can put some less competitive schools on there as well...!
thanks,
felicity

 

[atsai3]

hi all,
i was just wondering where i find out if schools filled or not? i tried to look in freida but this didnt help, it just tells me how many residents they had each year.
just a thought. sometimes it seems so darn hard to figure out which programs are "competitive" or not. the reason id like to know is so that when i make my rank list i can put some less competitive schools on there as well...!
thanks,
felicity

I don't think those numbers are publicly available. A list of all unfilled residency positions is posted on the NRMP Web site a few days prior to Match Day. However, I think only those medical students who are registered for the NRMP that year are allowed to access the list.

One of my friends obtained the list of unfilled positions in the 2002 match. Here are the results for psychiatry--

For psychiatry, from the 2002 match: U Arizona (1 of 6 unfilled), USC (1/10), U Colorado (2/9), UConn (1/5), GWU (1/4), Howard (1/1), MCG (1/6), Morehouse (3/4), Advocated Lutheran-Illinois (1/3), Loyola (2/6), U Kentucky (1/4), Henry Ford (2/4), MSU-East Lansing (1/2), U Mich (2/11), U Minn (1/5), Creighton (1/6), U Nevada-Reno (3/4), Maimonides NY (2/2), Rochester-Strong Memorial (2/3), Duke (3/11), NEOUCOM (1/3), Case Western/UH (4/6), U Oklahoma-OK City (3/4), U Oklahoma-Tulsa (1/3), Allegheny (3/4), U Puerto Rico (1/4), McGill (2/2), East Tenn (1/4), Meharry (2/4).

For internal medicine/psychiatry, from the 2002 match: U Conn (1 of 1 unfilled), U Iowa (2/3), U Kansas (1/2), Tulane (1/2), SUNY-Brooklyn (2/2), East Carolina (1/2), East Tenn (1/2), UVA Roanoke-Salem (1/1).

I would emphasize that this list of programs is only representative of the psychiatry residency training programs that did not fill for the 2002 match. I would guess that many of the schools on this list could not be appropriately described by the phrase "this program is so bad they did not fill". Not filling is highly embarassing, and many programs will go through substantial overhaul so as to decrease the likelihood that they will not fill in the future.

I guess the most direct way to obtain the most current data would be to ask the Program Director. They should be willing to provide you with that information if asked directly.

Cheers
-AT.

 

[Poety]

this is cut and pasted from scutwork for 2005 from the unfilled programs list for all specialites.

PSYCHIATRY
ARIZONA
MARICOPA MED CTR-AZ
Tel: N/A 1898400C0* 3 2
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (480)344-2157
CALIFORNIA
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY-CA
Tel: (909)558-8131 1024400C0* 7 5
MARTIN L KING JR-DREW MC-CA
Tel: (310)668-3588 2057400C0* 7 2
Fax: (310)223-0712
STANFORD UNIV PROGS-CA
Tel: (650)725-5591 1820400A0 2 1
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (650)725-3762
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HOWARD UNIV HOSP-DC
Tel: N/A 2193400A0 1 0
FLORIDA
U FLORIDA PROG-SHANDS HOSP
Tel: (352)265-0345 1824400C0* 7 6
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (352)265-6987
GEORGIA
MOREHOUSE SCH OF MED-GA
Tel: (404)756-1440 x 1451 2099400C0* 4 3
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (404)756-1471
HAWAII
U HAWAII AFFIL PSYCH RES
Tel: (808)586-2900 2231400C0* 5 4
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (808)586-2940
ILLINOIS
LOYOLA UNIV MED CTR-IL
Tel: (708)216-5059 1170400C0* 6 5
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (708)216-5885
KENTUCKY
UNIV LOUISVILLE SOM-KY
Tel: (502)852-5395 1217400C0 8 7
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (502)852-3751
List of Unfilled Programs 2005 Page 21 of 29
CODE QUOTA MATCHED CODE QUOTA MATCHED
* Uses ERAS for Scramble
NEW YORK
BROOKDALE HOSP MED CTR-NY
Tel: (718)240-5667 1419400C0 1 0
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (718)240-5448
METROPOLITAN HOSP CTR-NY
Tel: (212)423-7061 1473400C0 6 3
SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
Tel: N/A 1516400C0* 4 3
Email: [email protected]
UNIV BUFFALO GRAD MED-NY
Tel: N/A 3099400C0* 5 4
Email: [email protected]
NORTH CAROLINA
PITT COUNTY MEM HOSP/BRODY SOM-NC
Tel: N/A 3057400C0 6 5
Email: [email protected]
OHIO
WRIGHT STATE UNIV SOM-OH
Tel: N/A 2011400C0* 4 1
PENNSYLVANIA
UPMC MEDICAL EDUCATION PROG-PA
Tel: (412)246-5320 1652400C0 13 9
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (412)246-5335
PUERTO RICO
SAN JUAN VA MED CTR-PR
Tel: N/A 3012400C0 3 2
SOUTH DAKOTA
U SOUTH DAKOTA SOM
Tel: N/A 2805400C0* 2 1
TENNESSEE
EAST TENNESSEE ST UNIV
Tel: (423)439-2225 2066400C0* 2 1
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (423)439-2210
MEHARRY/METRO GENERAL-TN
Tel: (615)327-6491 1028400C0* 4 1
TEXAS
AUSTIN MED EDUC PROGS-TX
Tel: (512)324-2080 1704400C0 5 2
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (512)324-2084
U TEXAS MED BRANCH-GALVESTON
Tel: (409)747-9786 1714400C1* 3 0
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (409)747-9788
VIRGINIA
EASTERN VA MED SCHOOL-VA
Tel: (757)446-5884 2980400C0* 1 0
WISCONSIN
MED COLL WISCONSIN AFF HOSPS
Tel: (414)456-8998 1784400C0* 7 4
Email: [email protected]

 

[atsai3]

this is cut and pasted from scutwork for 2005 from the unfilled programs list for all specialites.

Fascinating. So Pitt didn't fill last year...

Felicity, I guess if you are going to use this information to identify "less competitive schools", I would caution you to consider as "less competitive" only those programs have established a consistent pattern of not filling year after year. (Thanks to poetry for the link -- looks like scutwork.com has the lists from the past 5 years...) Using one year's worth of data is not informative in settings such as these.

-AT.

 

[The Pride]

I am a little confused about that scutwork list because it shows that Stanford had a quota of 2 and matched 1. I'm fairly certain Stanford has 9 PGY1 positions. Anybody have any idea about this?
😕

 

[atsai3]

I am a little confused about that scutwork list because it shows that Stanford had a quota of 2 and matched 1. I'm fairly certain Stanford has 9 PGY1 positions. Anybody have any idea about this?
😕

Research Track, perhaps.

-AT.

 

[Doc Samson]

Research Track, perhaps.

-AT.

I've also heard of these reports being skewed by programs offering positions outside of the match to IMGs or other non-traditional candidates. So even though a program might have 9 slots, they only enter 2 of them into the match. Another issue might be combined slots having seperate match IDs, for instance a program might have 8 residency slots, but 2 of them might be listed under a combined Adult/Child or Med/Psych ID.

 

[Miklos]

I've also heard of these reports being skewed by programs offering positions outside of the match to IMGs or other non-traditional candidates. So even though a program might have 9 slots, they only enter 2 of them into the match. Another issue might be combined slots having seperate match IDs, for instance a program might have 8 residency slots, but 2 of them might be listed under a combined Adult/Child or Med/Psych ID.

Sure. In 2004, 1,020 PGY1 Psychiatry positions were offered through the match of which 979 filled (NRMP datatables). However according to the JAMA survey later that year, 1,178 people were in program year 1 positions (may not exactly correspond to PGY1), while 1,129 were in year 1 positions without prior GME (JAMA yearly medical education issue, datatables).

But, I think that in this case, Stanford is unlikely to offer IMGs a position outside the match (if anyone has information to the contrary, please feel free to pm me ) FREIDA shows three program codes for Stanford's program, so it is likely that AT is right.