What are the stats? ...

[gioia]

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1. How many interview invitations are you planning to accept?

I understand that some residency applicants in Derm or Anesthesiology, apply to many programs (upwards of 100) and hope to interview at ~20 in order to secure match.

What are the stats for Psychiatry - meaning: statistically, how many interviews should we accept in order to potentially secure a match?

 

[sikegeek]

I saw a post on here before that said something like 90% of USMG's macth in their top 4, so take that for what it's worth.

 

[PsychMD2100]

Here are the 2007 NRMP Match Statistics:

http://www.nrmp.org/data/resultsanddata2007.pdf

 

[DebDynamite]

I applied to 18 programs, and will (hopefully) accept interview invitations from 7-8 of them (six I have already scheduled).

 

[masterofnone]

I applied to 12 programs. Most are middle of the road (in terms of competativeness) one or two are fairly competative, four did not fill last year. I have 8 interviews, on "hold" with one- pending my last letter🙁, and have not heard from the other 3 so expect to get denied.

I consider myself as a middle of the road applicant (on paper) as I 3-peated step 1 but did well in 3rd and 4th year and did great on step 2.

We'll see how that all works out in March but I feel pretty good with 8 interviews...

 

[whopper]

I'd suggest doing about 7-10 interviews. Doing more is safer but costs money, time & travelling can be exhausting.

 

[PsychMD2100]

Focus more on the places that you'd really see yourself attending. If you're a US MD graduate, you should be able to get one of your top 3 match ranks. 10 is the safe number of interviews but many people interview at half that number and do just fine.

 

[gioia]

All good information - this has been informative.​

According to the data, there are approx 1K openings with approx 4K applicants listing a rank for any given psych program at which they interviewed. Superficially, that would indicate a 1:4 chance of matching in psych.

Reading further (and I did this all briefly at lunch) it appears that:

1. the total available positions per applicant hovers at 1.6:1 (Derm= .8:1, FP=2.4:1)
2. in 2007, 94.7% PGY1 psych positions were filled. 56.6% of those were USMG's
3. of USMG applicants who chose to rank only psych programs, 96.8% matched

🙂​

 

[kingbug]

Gioia,

I don't know where your data is from, but according to the 2007 NRMP match data there were 1,319 total applicants (638 USMG, 671 FMG). Only 22 (~3%) out of 648 USG did not match and USMG occupied 65.8% of positions.

http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2007.pdf

 

[PeeWee137]

does this data include DO's? just curious. not sure what category we fall into...

 

[gioia]

Gioia,

I don't know where your data is from, but according to the 2007 NRMP match data there were 1,319 total applicants (638 USMG, 671 FMG). Only 22 (~3%) out of 648 USG did not match and USMG occupied 65.8% of positions.

http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2007.pdf

Right.
If you re-read my post you will see that our numbers approximate each other (ie~ I rounded).
The 1:4 ratio was applicants interviewing not N applicants.​

 

[Faebinder]

hmm.. my stats.

5'6.5" 180 lbs. White male. No current Axis II diagnosis. My favorite movie: As Good As It Gets. My favorite Diagnosis: Pseudoseizure.

Sorry, temptation took over.

 

[gioia]

Heh! I like your approach to stats!​

I remember my first research mentor told me that there are 3 lies:

1. Lies
2. Damn Lies
3. Statistics

😱