is an Internal Medicine Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
is a Fourth-Year Medical Student, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University.
J Grad Med Educ. 2022 Feb;14(1):108-111. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-21-00614.1.
The 2020-2021 residency application cycle was altered to reduce COVID-19 transmission, with moves to all virtual interviews and no away rotations for medical students. These changes may have affected how students ranked residency programs, such as choosing programs near their medical schools.
To determine if a larger percentage of medical students matched to residency programs in the same state as their medical schools in 2021 vs 2018-2020.
We searched the webpages or emailed student affairs deans of the 155 Liaison Committee on Medical Education accredited MD programs to attain medical school match lists. Differences in the percentage of students matching to residency programs in the same US state as their medical schools in 2021 vs 2018-2020 were compared using chi-square tests.
We recorded 36 021 of 79 406 (45%) National Resident Matching Program, 759 of 1720 (44%) ophthalmology, and 586 urology MD residency matches between 2018 and 2021. The percentage of students matching to residency programs in the same state as their medical schools was 35.9% in 2021 versus 34.3% in 2018-2020 (=.005). Students were more likely to match to programs in the same state as their medical schools in 2021 if they attended a public medical school (40.3% vs 38.5%, =.009) or applied into specialties where ≥50% of students traditionally perform away rotations (32.2% vs 30.2%, =.031).
There was a small difference in the percentage of medical students matching to residency programs in the same state as their medical schools in 2021 vs 2018-2020.
2020-2021 年住院医师申请周期发生了变化，以减少 COVID-19 的传播，所有面试都改为线上，医学生也无法进行实地轮转。这些变化可能影响了学生对住院医师项目的排名，例如选择距离医学院较近的项目。
确定 2021 年与 2018-2020 年相比，有多少医学生选择与自己医学院所在州相同的住院医师项目。
我们搜索了 155 个美国医学教育联络委员会认证的 MD 项目的网页或给学生事务院长发电子邮件，以获得医学院的匹配名单。使用卡方检验比较 2021 年和 2018-2020 年有多少学生选择与自己医学院所在州相同的美国住院医师项目。
我们记录了 2018 年至 2021 年全国住院医师匹配项目的 36021 名学生、759 名眼科学生和 586 名泌尿科 MD 住院医师的匹配情况，分别占 79406 名（45%）、1720 名（44%）和 79406 名（45%）。2021 年，选择与自己医学院所在州相同的住院医师项目的学生比例为 35.9%，而 2018-2020 年为 34.3%（=0.005）。如果学生就读于公立医学院（40.3%比 38.5%，=0.009）或申请传统上进行实地轮转的专业（32.2%比 30.2%，=0.031），则他们更有可能选择与自己医学院所在州相同的住院医师项目。
与 2018-2020 年相比，2021 年选择与自己医学院所在州相同的住院医师项目的医学生比例略有差异。
