Osteopathic Residency Match and Scramble

Doctor Dan

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Overview

• Residency options: 5 pathways• Board certification• Malignant residency programs• D.O. match and scramble rates• NRMP Match and Scramble Course• Further reading

Osteopathic Options

• AOA: American Osteopathic Assn.

• ACGME: Accreditation Council for GME

Starting July, 2008

1. AOA Residency (internship incl.)

2. AOA Prelim. (mostly at same institution)

3. AOA Traditional Internship (stand-alone)

4. ACGME (internship)

5. ACGME (residency)

AOA Boarded?

1. D.O.’s want Osteopathic Board Cert.

2. Some states require AOA internship for Osteopathic Licensure

• Can get AOA approval for doing ACGME internship.

• In 2006, there were only 90 dual ABMS-AOA programs out of over 8,000.

AOA-Approved ACGME

• From July 2007 to December 2007– 1,603 D.O. petitions– 1,217 (76%) approved– 369 (23%) pending completion

____________– 99% total

– <1% denied or withdrew app.

2006-2007 Data Sets

• In 2007, there were 3,103 D.O. graduates.

• Add in about 70 previous grads and you have the residency application pool.

• Assume that all of them applied to either an AOA or ACGME program, then use ACGME data to complete the picture.

2007 Match Rates

• 3,173 applicants to AOA + ACGME

• 1,136 matched ACGME - 68.8% (69.9%, 2009)

• 1,267* matched AOA - 62.2%

http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/reprint/108/3/127.pdf

https://services.aamc.org/publications/showfile.cfm?file=version122.pdf&prd_id=244&prv_id=299&pdf_id=122

Is AOA Hiding Data?

• They don’t publish the number of applicants to AOA residencies.

• Can’t calculate an exact match rate.

Raw AOA Numbers

• 76% match rate of D.O. grads and previous grads match at either AOA or ACGME.

Further Reading

http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/reprint/108/3/127.pdf

• http://www.acofp.org/resources/publications/archives/0109/0109_2.html