Residency Applications

Identifying inaccuracies on emergency medicine residency applications

BACKGROUND Previous trials have showed a 10-30% rate of inaccuracies on applications to individual residency programs. No studies have attempted to corroborate this on a national level. Attempts by residency programs to diminish the frequency of inaccuracies on applications have not been reported. We seek to clarify the national incidence of inaccuracies on applications to emergency medicine re...

Inflation of Family Medicine Residency Applications.

Last year, graduates from MD-granting medical schools in the United States applied to an average of 23.7 family medicine residency programs and interviewed at 11. This year, applications were projected to increase again to 25.81 (a 57% increase since 2009). During this same time period, allopathic family medicine graduate medical education (GME) positions offered through the National Resident M...

Better letter of intent for pharmacy residency applications.

Rising Residency Applications: How High Will It Go?

Otolaryngology is viewed as a competitive residency program, and as a result, a high number of applications are submitted by each applicant. A look at the data quantifies the cost and the challenges.

Residency redesign.