Seeking a better (residency) match

Residency Selection: Making a Match

Exploring residency match violations in family practice.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's objective was to learn what student applicants to family practice residency programs in 2002 understood about National Resident Matching Program guideline violations, whether they experienced violations, and how they were affected by perceived violations. METHODS We used qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 15 key informant students. RESULT...

Ophthalmology Residency Match outcomes for 2011.

PURPOSE To determine the match rate and predictors of matching into an ophthalmology residency. DESIGN Population-based, cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS All 746 candidates who submitted an application for the 2011 ophthalmology residency match. METHODS The Ophthalmology Residency Matching Program applicant database was reviewed to determine applicant characteristics and match outcomes...

Disparities in the residency match process.

To the Editor: We are writing to express our concerns with the current residency matching process regarding an apparent loophole that treats sponsored US graduates differently than independent applicants from international medical schools. Allowing international graduates to enter the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and then withdraw if offered a pre-Match position, is unfair to US gr...

Seeking a better life in the plankton.

F oraminifers are single-celled, testate protists with a rich geologic record spanning at least 500 million years of Earth’s most recent history. Their abundance, diversity, and diagnostic distribution patterns make them very useful to Earth scientists for purposes of relative age determination, correlation from one locality to another, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Benthic foraminife...