Showing posts with label residents and fellows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label residents and fellows. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

It's hard to navigate the Ophthalmology and Urology labor market without a couples match

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The Ophthalmology and Urology matches are earlier than the NRMP resident match, and do not offer a couples match. Based on a survey of Ophth...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Signaling in the markets for new doctors

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  Signaling of interest is catching on in medical labor markets for residents and fellows. Here's some material from Thalamus  (which de...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Collective bargaining by medical residents

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  The WSJ has the story: Medical Residents Unionize Over Pay, Working Conditions . Doctors-in-training say they want to advocate for themsel...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

"It Is Time for Interventional Cardiology Fellowship to Join the National Resident Matching Program," say its leaders

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  The current appointment process for interventional cardiology fellows is early and congested, and programs feel obliged to make exploding ...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Wilderness Medicine starts a fellowship Match

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 "Wilderness medicine" sounds like the sort of medicine you hope you never need as a patient.  But there is a medical fellowship p...
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...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

Limiting congestion by limiting applications, or making them costly

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  Here's a paper that investigates two alternatives to limiting congestion in college admissions: one is to limit applications, and the ...