Safe Number of Interviews

[Salma123]

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Now that some of us are getting tired and cancelling just wanted to know what you thought would be the safe number of interviews to match in PM&R.

 

[Ludicolo]

Now that some of us are getting tired and cancelling just wanted to know what you thought would be the safe number of interviews to match in PM&R.

See Charting Outcomes in the Match, 2009, Page 216.

For US allopathic seniors, it appears you have a 90% chance of matching into PM&R if you rank/interview at 6 programs. For independent applicants, ranking 9 programs gives you about the same probability.

Assuming you rank everywhere you interview, of course.

 

[MSKalltheway]

For most people in my year, I found that as long as you didnt have red flags and you had a good mix of "reaches" and "safeties", 6-8 programs should do the trick. You should have a decent sense of your competitiveness, so you'll know if it needs to be more or less, in general less than 5 is probably a bad idea though. Can never go wrong with more.