What are your chances of matching to a U.S. Medical Residency?
Episode 35: Learn the your chance of matching based on your background: allopathic, osteopathic, Caribbean, International Medical Graduates. No opinions here – only data released by the NRMP, AOA, and ACGME about the match rates of residency applicants.
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Here’s an overview the match rates for medical school graduates from all backgrounds:
- Overall 71.4%
- US Allopaths 93.1%
- US Osteopaths 76% overall (69.9% in allopathic residencies; 62.2% in osteopathic)
- US IMG’s 47.8%
- Non-US IMG’s 41.6%
Here are the data from the National Residency Matching Program. Download the full report here: http://www.nrmp.org/data/resultsanddata2009.pdf
Overall Applicant Pool:
Allopathic Residency Applicants:
Osteopathic Residency Applicants to ALLOPATHIC Programs (Osteopathic programs covered in subsequent podcast):
US Nationals From Foreign Medical Schools (Caribbean) Stats for NRMP Residencies:
International Medical Graduates’ Application Stats to NRMP Residency Programs:
So, who’s at risk to not match based on this data?
1.Non-US IMG’s
2.US IMG’s
3.US grads in bottom 7%
- No or few interviews
- Small rank list
4.Anyone that doesn’t understand NRMP
5.Those with a gut feeling
Tags: caribbean medical school, eras, medical residency, nrmp match, nrmp residency match statistics, osteopathic residency stats
