Showing posts with label NRMP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NRMP. Show all posts
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Many preference signals as a soft cap on number of applications in medical residency matching

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  Here's a review article on matching for medical residents,  with particular attention to neurosurgery, in the Cureus Journal of Medica...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

The Path to a Match for Interventional Cardiology Fellowships

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The  Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions  has started a fellowship match, and here's an article describing the fa...
Friday, May 24, 2024

NRMP Board of Directors (2020-2024), and a 40th anniversary

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  This bit of glass marks the end of my term on the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Board of Directors. One of the issues that con...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Match Day for new doctors

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 The 2024 Match for new American doctors was announced yesterday by the NRMP, the National Resident Matching Program. Congratulations to al...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Signaling for residency programs in dermatology, general surgery, and internal medicine

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We're starting to see some data from signaling for residency applications.  This paper observes that programs are more likely to intervi...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Transition to residency conference: Oct 5-7

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I'll be a panelist at the  the NRMP conference  Transition to Residency ,  in Boston, Oct 5-7 "The National Resident Matching Progr...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design: SLMath introductory workshop (videos)

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Last week I gave the opening talk of the week long  Introductory Workshop at SLMath, on Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mecha...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Signaling for Orthopaedic surgery residencies

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 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery reports a small survey about signaling behavior among applicants for orthopaedic surgery residencies...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

OB-GYN doctors will use a new application system to apply to residency programs (but will continue to go through the NRMP resident match)

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  Before new doctors can participate in the resident match (by engaging with the NRMP), they first have to apply to residency programs, and ...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Resident match video from the NRMP

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  Different labor markets are organized differently. One difference between the market for new doctors and the markets for new Ph.D.s is tha...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Transition from medical school to residency: defending the parts that work well (namely the NRMP Resident Match)

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This post is about a recently published paper concerning the design of the market for new doctors in the U.S.  But it will require some back...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Improving the transition to (surgical) residency

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The transition from medical school to residency is presently troubled by congestion involving (too) many applications and interviews.  It...
Friday, October 21, 2022

The past and future of the transition from medical school to residency, in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, by Williamson, Soane, and Carmody

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  The October issue of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education considers the past and future of the transition to residency. The US Reside...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

The importance of couples matching for medical residents (it's missed where it's missing)

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  One of the successes of the design of the NRMP Match for medical residents is that it accommodates couples, using the Roth-Peranson algori...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

An Interview Match for medical residents and fellows--a preliminary proposal

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 There is a lot of concern in the graduate medical education community that too much time and treasure is being spent on too many unproducti...
Friday, November 26, 2021

NRMP Statement On Interviewing

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 The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) has a statement on interviewing, which precedes the NRMP match for new American doctors, and ...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Some history of the National Resident Matching Program

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 Here's a short history of the resident match, including the recent merger of MD and DO student applicants, and some thoughts about curr...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

An interview in (not on) Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, largely about resident matching

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  For those  readers of this blog who may have missed the May issue of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research , here's an interview ...
Monday, July 5, 2021

NRMP Position Statement On The (In)Feasibility Of An Early Match

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 There has been some suggestion that dividing the resident match into early and late matches might be a way to address the congestion in app...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Match Day 2021 for medical residents

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  Yesterday was Match Day, during Covid Year, and the aggregate data are reassuring that virtual (instead of in-person) interviews left the ...