Record number of unmatched medical graduates

Medical school graduates entering family medicine: increasing the overall number.

Understanding the Interview and Ranking Behaviors of Unmatched International Medical Students and Graduates in the 2013 Main Residency Match.

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, the number of unfilled positions in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency Match has declined by one-third, while the number of unmatched applicants has grown by more than 50%, largely due to a rise in the number of international medical school students and graduates (IMGs). Although only half of IMG participants historically have matched t...

Assessment of medical graduates competencies.

Dear Editor, Medical professional proficiency comprises a set of skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to efficiently accomplish the practice of medicine.1 The major aim of undergraduate medical education in the region is to produce doctors who are competent and able to meet the health needs of the community while also being capable of continuing medical education.2 Have the medical school...

Predicting the number of US medical graduates entering adult nephrology fellowships using search term analysis.

To the Editor: There has been a worrisome decrease in the number of applicants to nephrology fellowship training programs. First identified in 2008, the number of nephrology applications has been decreasing annually since 2002. Given the annual increase in kidney disease and projected shortage of nephrologists, this downward trend is concerning. Various studies have suggested that a lack of int...

Survey of Queen's University medical graduates.

Little work, however, has been done in this field in Northern Ireland. One of the main functions of the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical Education is to provide a careers information and advisory service for recent graduates. This service is limited by a lack of basic information about the factors which influence young doctors in choosing a specialty and deciding in which part ...