Residency Placement Fever

Factors Affecting Candidate Placement on an Emergency Medicine Residency Program’s Rank Order List

INTRODUCTION Several factors influence the final placement of a medical student candidate on an emergency medicine (EM) residency program's rank order list, including EM grade, standardized letter of recommendation, medical school class rank, and US Medical License Examination (USMLE) scores. We sought to determine the correlation of these parameters with a candidate's final rank on a residency...

Projected impact of the Primary Care Residency Expansion program using historical trends in graduate placement.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 89, Number 7 ◆ April 1, 2014 The Primary Care Residency Expansion (PCRE) program was created by the Health Resources and Services Administration in 2010 to help address the shortage of primary care physicians. If historical graduate placement trends for funded programs remain stable, the PCRE program would have a potential impact of more than 600 new physicians working i...

Residency redesign.

Effect of Doximity Residency Rankings on Residency Applicants' Program Choices.

INTRODUCTION Choosing a residency program is a stressful and important decision. Doximity released residency program rankings by specialty in September 2014. This study sought to investigate the impact of those rankings on residency application choices made by fourth year medical students. METHODS A 12-item survey was administered in October 2014 to fourth year medical students at three schoo...

Residency applicants' perspectives on family medicine residency training length.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Future of Family Medicine report advocated experimentation with 4-year residency training models. This study examines residency applicants' opinions about extending the length of residency training and seeks to determine which features of an extended program would be most desirable to applicants. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive, self-administe...