Osteopathic Residency Match and Scramble

Osteopathic Residency Match and Scramble Doctor Dan Medical School Podcast www.Medical-Mastermind-Community.com

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 • AOA Residency (internship incl.) • AOA Prelim. (mostly at same institution) • AOA Traditional Internship (stand-alone) • ACGME (internship) • ACGME (residency)

AOA Boarded? • D.O.’s want Osteopathic Board Cert. • 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

Osteopathic Residency Match and Scramble