Lavertue Samantha M, Terry Richard
Surgery, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Elmira, USA.
Family Medicine, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Elmira, USA.
Cureus. 2023 Apr 5;15(4):e37178. doi: 10.7759/cureus.37178. eCollection 2023 Apr.
This paper examines the 2022 surgical subspecialty results within the Match hosted yearly by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) in the United States. It exists to place medical graduates with post-graduate training programs via an algorithm based on ranked lists provided by both residency programs and individual applicants around the world. This paper compares the match rates between allopathic medical graduates (MDs) and osteopathic medical graduates (DOs). Using published NRMP data and reports from Program Director surveys, we explored possible reasons for match rate differences between the two groups, hypothesizing that lower match rates among DOs could be explained by completion of less volunteerism, research, or curricular activities that may have affected their overall first-choice match rates in competitive surgical specialties. While the data showed that MDs consistently out-matched DOs, the cause was deemed multifactorial as the data did not provide concrete evidence to the contrary. We concluded that more data over time should be collected to understand why osteopathic students do not match as well as allopathic students in surgical specialties.
本文研究了美国国家住院医师匹配计划（NRMP）每年举办的匹配活动中2022年外科亚专业的匹配结果。该计划旨在通过一种基于世界各地住院医师培训项目和个人申请者提供的排名列表的算法，将医学毕业生与研究生培训项目进行匹配。本文比较了opathic医学毕业生（MDs）和整骨医学毕业生（DOs）的匹配率。利用NRMP公布的数据和项目主任调查的报告，我们探讨了两组匹配率差异的可能原因，假设DOs较低的匹配率可以通过较少的志愿服务、研究或课程活动来解释，这些活动可能影响了他们在竞争激烈的外科亚专业中的总体第一选择匹配率。虽然数据显示MDs的匹配率一直高于DOs，但原因被认为是多因素的，因为数据没有提供相反的具体证据。我们得出结论，应该随着时间的推移收集更多数据，以了解为什么整骨医学专业的学生在外科亚专业中的匹配情况不如opathic医学专业的学生。
