Unfilled Anesthesia slots

[jawicobike]

Advertisement - Members don't see this ad

I noticed that there were quite a few programs that were unfilled following the match last year. Is this because many of these programs would rather be unfilled than lower their standards to fill their slots? Do most of these postitions get filled in the scramble?

 

[2ndyear]

Connecticut Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

U Connecticut Hlth Ctr
Anthony Peluso 1094040A0 8 4 4

Illinois Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

Rush University Med Ctr-IL
Anthony Ivankovich 1147040A0* 8 5 3

Iowa Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

U Iowa Hosp/Clin-Iowa City
Tara Hata 1203040A0 3 1 2
P: 319-353-8340
F: 319-356-2940
[email protected]
Tara Hata 1203040C0 10 8 2
P: 319-353-8340
F: 319-356-2940
[email protected]

Kentucky Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

Univ Louisville SOM-KY
Anilkumar Vinayakan 1217040A0 2 1 1
P: 502-852-5851
F: 502-852-6056

Louisiana Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

LSUHSC-Shreveport-LA
Randall Cork 1232040C0* 3 2 1
P: 318-675-5298
F: 318-675-6881
[email protected]

Massachusetts Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

New England Med Ctr-MA
Iqbal Ahmed 1263040A0 6 5 1
P: 617-636-9303
F: 617-636-8384
[email protected]

St Elizabeths Med Ctr-MA
David Cullen 1266040A0* 3 1 2
P: 617-789-2777
[email protected]
David Cullen 1266040C0* 3 1 2
P: 617-789-2777
[email protected]

Missouri Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

St Louis Univ SOM-MO
James DeBoard 1365040C0 3 1 2
P: 314-577-8750
F: 314-268-5102
[email protected]

University Hosps-Columbia-MO
Joel Johnson 1994040A0* 2 0 2
P: 573-882-2568
F: 573-882-2226
[email protected]
Joel Johnson 1994040C0* 2 0 2
P: 573-882-2568
F: 573-882-2226
[email protected]

New Jersey Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

St Josephs Reg Med Ctr-NJ
Stephen Winikoff 1406040A0* 7 4 3

UMDNJ-R W Johnson-Piscataway
Christine Hunter 2918040A0 7 4 3
P: 732-235-6153
F: 732-235-6131
[email protected]

New Mexico Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

U New Mexico SOM
Paul Diana 1962040A0 1 0 1
P: 505-272-2734
F: 505-272-1300
[email protected]

New York Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

Nassau Univ Med Ctr-NY
Kenneth Freese 1448040A0 1 0 1
[email protected]

Univ Buffalo Grad Med-NY
Mark Lema 3099040C0 8 2 6
P: 716-859-4530

Ohio Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

Case Western/Univ Hosps Cleveland-OH
Matthew Norcia 1552040A0 1 0 1
P: --
[email protected]
Matthew Norcia 1552040C0 11 8 3
[email protected]

Metrohealth Med Ctr-OH
Tejbir Sidhu 1553040A0 6 5 1
[email protected]

Ohio State Univ Med Ctr-OH
Michael Howie 1566040A0* 10 8 2
P: 614-293-4544
F: 614-293-9643
[email protected]

Pennsylvania Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) U COM-PA
Willie Hardy 1849040C0* 4 3 1
P: 215-762-7922
F: 215-762-8656
[email protected]

Temple Univ Hosp-PA
Scott Schartel 1646040A0* 6 4 2
P: 215-707-3506
F: 215-707-8028
[email protected]

Virginia Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

Virginia Commonwealth U Hlth Sys
Jay Shapiro 1743040C0 8 4 4
F: 804-828-8682

West Virginia Code Quota Matched
in Match Currently
Unfilled

West Virginia University SOM
Kathleen Rosen 1837040C0* 2 1 1
[email protected]
There really weren't that many unfilled spots last year, were there?. Here's what I learned about the match from the other side during my intern year. First off, it takes about 8-10 interviewees for every matched spot on average. So if you have a large program, you will have to interview a whole bunch of people to make that list up. Also not everyone interviewed is ranked. As far as lowering the standards, that comes in to a point because the scramble does have qualified candidates to choose from and then it's a buyer's market. Also, inevitably people will want to switch in from other specialties after a year or even a career and these don't go through the match.

 

[VolatileAgent]

programs that don't fill one year usually learn their lesson the second time around. i heard through the grapevine that vcu in richmond just planned on too many of their ms4's staying on and didn't interview/rank enough people. likewise uconn is a really solid program that just met with one of those quirks of getting a lot of people to come interview that were interviewing at the same programs. then they got screwed in the rankings because they were everybody's 4th or 5th choice (ie. those candidates matched higher).

also at my program (which kept one homegrown this year and filled) had about 4-5 ms4's last year who were interested in gas. supposedly they got about 750-800 applications and interviewed about 150 for 12 spots. this year, through interacting with the seniors, there's like 14 or so who are interested in anesthesia, a couple of whom want to stay and others who are pretty honest that they want to move on for various reasons (but will probably still interview with us). so, i think it's going to be a bumper year and you shouldn't expect to see this many spots go unfilled this time around, despite the fact that it was actually less than the '04 match. time will tell.

 

[2ndyear]

It's also interesting to look at the unfilled spots from year to year. Seems like many places on the 2004 match list filled in 2005 and not vice-versa. Goes to show you that some people look at those lists pretty closely when applying and make an attempt to apply to the unfilled programs as 'backups'. Can't say that I did it much differently 2 years ago myself...