Showing posts with label residents and fellows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label residents and fellows. 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...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Preference signaling for urologists (including Flush Day)

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  It's been very interesting for me to watch the growth of preference signaling to combat congestion in applications and interviews, fro...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Signaling for medical residencies: the first few years

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Two papers report on signaling in Otolaryngology and Orthopaedic surgery.  The Otolaryngology societies have a summary of the current state ...
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...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Signaling in medical residency applications

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 We're starting to see descriptive studies of how signals are being used in the labor market for new doctors.  Each medical specialty ha...
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...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Kidney exchange (and other bits of market design) in the New York Times

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  Peter Coy, the veteran New York Times economics columnist, writes about kidney exchange, after an interview/conversation sparked by a rece...
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...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Applying for medical residencies: a consensus statement from Internal Medicine

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 The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine has released a "consensus statement" with many proposals about application and interv...
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 28, 2023

Interesting development in the transition from medical school to residency: connecting applications and interviews

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  The market for new doctors has been suffering from congestion in applications and interviews, in the runup to the resident Match (see rece...
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...