Match Madness
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This year’s match has pretty good news for IMGs. At least in Family Med and Internal Med.
Only 44% and 54% of those positions were filled by US med students. 94 Family Med and 20 Internal Med programs went unfilled. It also looks like fewer people are going into Surgery? 137 preliminary programs with unfilled positions?
Huge congratulations to everyone that matched this week.
I’m nervous about my turn next year.
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March 21st, 2010 at 9:22 pm
the way the open positions has been explained to me is that some are unfunded. however, those are still good numbers!
also, those stats for IM and FM don’t include all other students, besides US allopathic students.
unless i am wrong, it looks like 93% of Allopathic students matched, 70% of Osteopathic (25% dropped, which means they could have matched into an osteo. program, you get dropped from the allo. match that way), and 47% of IMGs matched? that last one seems super low, right?
what do you make of that?
March 22nd, 2010 at 7:07 am
IMGs also have the opportunity to “pre-match” outside of the NRMP system. they can accept offers and start earlier than US students. if you pre-match, you may not have entered the system so wouldn’t be counted as a “drop” like a DO student that accepts an osteopath match.
about half of the Caribbean students that I know pre-matched (including Kendra at islandmedstudent.com). which is accurately reflected in the 47%, i guess.
March 25th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
I saw on the Ross website that they have about 600 students in the match. There is also a post on valuemd about this. What does this mean for mua students in the match?
I’m attending mua most probably in Jan 11.
Please share your insight
thanks
March 25th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
hi Bob,
i’m not sure i understand your question.
maybe you can clarify?
March 26th, 2010 at 1:31 am
Sure. If you go to the Ross uni website you will see that in this years match alone Ross has about 600 students who matched. The nrmp data shows that there were roughly 1700 successful US citizen IMGs.
My question is that if schools like Ross and sgu are producing such a vast number of grads matching where does that leave mua?
How successful are mua grads in the match?
I know you are busy and I sincerley appreciate your time responding
best
bob
March 26th, 2010 at 6:40 am
ah, i see.
okay, my answer is two-fold.
1) at least 50+% of students (when i attended MUA) were Canadians. so they wouldn’t be included in the 1700 US citizen IMG number you mention.
2) my MED 5 ‘graduating’ class was about ~80 people. so even if every single one of those students passed Step 1 and made it to the match on time (which they often don’t), there’s still plenty of room in the 1100 non-Ross US citizen IMGs for 40 Americans to match.
according to the table above, 6757 non-US seniors (aka: US and international FMGs) matched in 2010.
i’m sorry i can’t give you an exact number or percentage of how successful MUA grads are in the match. truth is, i only know what i hear first-hand from people i know. MUA usually publishes their annual match list on the website (http://www.mua.edu/mua/index.php/curriculum/clinical-education/our-graduates). there is often a running informal tally somewhere on ValueMD.
March 26th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
I see. Well that puts me at some ease lol
out of curiosity you said when I attended Mua…are you not there anymore?
April 1st, 2010 at 10:49 am
Hi Jennifer
just wondering based on your experiences thus far, do you you think the percentage of usimgs will decrease over the coming years? I’m staring at Mua in the fall and anticipate to match in 2014. How do you think things will play out being an mua grad ? Especially with the increase in us enrollment?
April 5th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Very interesting post and questions from your other readers. I think with the amount of people that actually make it through MUA there is a great chance of them either matching or making it in the scramble. I am so so SO excited for you to match this time next year!! It should be awesome!