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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Match* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

Or, the World According to JoMo, the Program Director Jon B. Morris, M.D. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Professor of Surgery

Letters of Recommendation MSPE Crafted by OSA JoMo Meetings – Reality Therapy

April

Class Meeting #1

May

June

Class Meeting #2

July

Aug.

Sept.

Interview Workshop Class Meeting

Oct.

MSPE Released Oct. 1

The Process (April-Nov. 2013)

Nov.

Interviews Advocacy Call

October

November

December

January

February

Rank List Deadline (Applicants & Programs)

March

Match Day

The Process (Nov. – March 2014)

Rank Order List Strategy: Getting to the Top

Ranked to Match

10

20

Take Group (3 cycles)

30

40

50

Bubble

60

70

80

DNR

• Assume a program takes 10 categorical residents. • Assume the program interviews 100 applicants. • The advocacy call has its greatest impact on the bubble group.

90

100

Anatomy of the MSPE • Identifying Information • Unique Characteristics (Two 125 word paragraphs) • Academic History (matriculation, graduation, combined degree, repeat/remediate, adverse actions, gaps, leaves of absence) • Academic Progress (the “cut and paste”) • Preclinical Basic Science • Core Clinical • Electives

• Combined Degree Summary • MD/PhD Summary • Masters Degree Summary

• Summary Paragraph • Bottom Line • Appendices (Module 2 and Module 4 bar graph)

Appendices Appendix A: Basic Science Performance – 2010

Appendix B: Clerkship Performance – 2011

MSPE Bottom Line Distribution Class of 2010

Class of 2011

Class of 2012

Class of 2013

Top of the Class

3%

4%

6%

5%

Outstanding

27%

29%

31%

38%

Excellent-Outstanding

19%

25%

33%

22%

Excellent

46%

37%

27%

32%

Very Good to Excellent

5%

3%

3%

3%

Very Good

-

2%

0

0

Good

-

-

-

-

Emerg Med Fam Med Medicine

2013 Match Top of Class

H 100% H P

Neurology OBGYN Pediatrics Psychiatry

Surgery

Mod 2

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

80%

59%

76%

95%

75%

85%

80%

93%

68%

20%

41%

24%

5%

25%

15%

20%

7%

P Outstanding

H H P P

Excellent to Outstanding

H H P

32% 59%

53%

38%

71%

59%

35%

50%

71%

41%

47%

59%

29%

38%

65%

50%

29%

P Excellent

H H P

3%

H H P P

49%

28%

24%

4%

46%

24%

12%

30%

32%

72%

72%

90%

54%

74%

82%

70%

68%

4%

6%

2%

6%

P Very Good to Excellent

3%

25 50% 25%

25%

75%

75%

25% 50% 50%

100%

26%

74%

25% 50% 50%

51%

100%

22%

75% 78%

2013 Match

# Applying

Step 1 Avg

TOC

O

E to O

E

VG to E

% Matching

10%

45%

15%

30%

100%

44%

25%

31%

100%

Medicine

+5%

39

249

Pediatrics

(-3%)

16

241

Emergency Medicine

+2%

12

238

8%

25%

42%

17%

Psychiatry

+1%

9

232

10%

10%

30%

50%

Surgery

(-3%)

9

247

22%

11%

56%

11%

89%

Anesthesia

(-2%)

8

239

25%

38%

25%

13%

100%

Orthopaedic Surgery

+2%

8

245

25%

25%

50%

100%

Dermatology

nc

7

254

43%

14%

14%

100%

Family Practice

nc

5

221

OBGYN

+1%

5

221

40%

40%

20%

100%

Pathology

+2%

5

246

40%

40%

20%

100%

nc

4

249

50%

25%

25%

100%

Radiology

(-1%)

4

250

25%

25%

25%

Neurology

(-1%)

3

245

100%

100%

nc

3

256

100%

100%

Otorhinolaryngology

(-2%)

3

257

67%

33%

100%

Pediatric Neurology

----

3

248

33%

67%

100%

Plastic Surgery

+1%

3

241

MED/PEDS

(-1%)

2

235

50%

50%

100%

Radiation Oncology

(-4%)

2

251

50%

50%

100%

Urology

nc

2

237

50%

50%

100%

Medicine/Dermatology

nc

1

100%

Peds/Psych/Child Psych

----

1

100%

Ophthalmology

Neurosurgery

29%

80%

33%

33%

8%

100% 100%

20%

25%

100%

100%

100%

33%

Penn Med Residency Match Data Total graduates Total residency placements Matching at University Program

2012 139 137

2013 160 157

137/139 = 99%

149/157 = 94%

Matching at Penn, 2013 Number of Students

Total

41

% of Students Matching

26% ( 8%) 2013 vs. 2012

HUP

29

18%

CHOP

10

6%

Scheie

1

1%

Penn Hospital

1

1%

Matches at Other Premier Institutions: Class of 2013 Institution Harvard     

Brigham and Women’s Children’s Hospital Boston Massachusetts Eye & Ear Massachusetts General Beth Israel Deaconess

Number of Students Matched 25 total (10) (2) (1) (11) (1)

NYU

11

University of California San Francisco

7

University of California Los Angeles

6

Johns Hopkins

5

Barnes Jewish/Washington University

4 4

NYP Hospital Weill Cornell Stanford Temple University Duke

4 4

Northwestern

3 3

University of Washington

3

Matches at Other Premier Institutions for the Class of 2013 Institution

Number of Students Matched

Yale

3

Columbia

2

University of Michigan University of Pittsburgh

2 2

Specialty Trends 2010 2011 2012 2013 Primary Care (Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Medicine/Pediatrics)

41.5%

31.5%

37%

39%

22.5%

21%

21%

21%

14.3%

28%

17%

11%

Surgical (General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, OMF, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Plastics, Urology)

Competitive Subspecialties (Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Radiation Oncology, Radiology)

SOAP 2013 Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program • 3 participated in SOAP in 2013: • 2 students matched • 1 student deferred

Why Some Don’t Match • • • •

Applied to inadequate number of programs Disconnect between academic record and career choice Interview Performance Bad luck