Tulane University School of Medicine and A.B. Freeman School of Business, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
PGY-1 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2020 Dec 18;15(12):e0244147. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244147. eCollection 2020.
Dual degrees combining and MD with another professional degree (MPH, MBA, or PhD) are becoming more common in an attempt to increase an applicant's competitivity for a residency.
This study was designed to assess differences in MD-only and dual degree MD applicants with respect to applicant characteristics and match outcomes.
Utilizing the voluntarily-reported publicly available 2017-2019 Texas STAR database, we assessed applicants from 115 medical schools. Texas STAR indicates that over this time period, there were 18,224 responses for a response rate of 43.8%. Comparisons were made between groups using student's t-test and chi-squared analysis.
Compared to MD only students, MD/MPH applicants had a higher propensity towards primary care specialties. MD/PhD applicants did not differ versus MD only applicants in their selection of primary care specialties, or of competitive specialties. MD/MBA applicants chose more competitive specialties and less primary care specialties. Despite all these differences, match rates were not different comparing MD only and dual-degree students.
Despite the growing popularity of combined MD programs, such programs do not appear to increase applicant match competitivity.
为了提高申请人在住院医师实习申请中的竞争力，越来越多的人开始攻读医学专业和其他专业的双学位（公共卫生硕士、工商管理硕士或博士学位）。
本研究旨在评估仅攻读医学博士学位和攻读双学位的医学博士申请人在申请人特征和匹配结果方面的差异。
本研究利用自愿报告的公开 2017-2019 年德克萨斯州 STAR 数据库，评估了来自 115 所医学院的申请人。德克萨斯州 STAR 数据显示，在此期间，有 18224 人回复，回复率为 43.8%。使用学生 t 检验和卡方分析比较组间差异。
与仅攻读医学博士学位的学生相比，攻读医学博士/公共卫生硕士双学位的申请人更倾向于选择初级保健专业。与仅攻读医学博士学位的申请人相比，攻读医学博士/博士学位的申请人在选择初级保健专业或竞争激烈的专业方面没有差异。攻读医学博士/工商管理硕士双学位的申请人选择了更多竞争激烈的专业，而选择了较少的初级保健专业。尽管存在这些差异，但比较仅攻读医学博士学位和攻读双学位的学生的匹配率没有差异。
尽管联合医学项目越来越受欢迎，但这些项目似乎并没有提高申请人的匹配竞争力。
