Congratulations, you matched! DO Match day produces nearly 1,000 primary care residents Emergency medicine, general surgery and orthopedic surgery lead non-primary care specialty placements. Feb. 5, 2018Monday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics match day Family medicine and internal medicine dominate the 2018 AOA Match with more than half of participants matching into these specialties. Over 2,500 graduating students and new DOs participated in this year’s AOA Match, with 65.7% successfully matching into residency programs. The top matched specialties are: Specialty 2018 Total Number Matched Percentage of Total Match by Specialty Family Medicine 503 30% Internal Medicine 426 25% Emergency Medicine 158 9% General Surgery 118 7% Orthopedic Surgery 115 7% Other Specialties 360 22% In all, 580 positions were filled in non-primary care specialties and over 700 positions were not filled through the initial match process. Historically many of these positions are filled after today’s match announcement. Residencies moving, not disappearing The AOA, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) are in the third year of a five-year transition to a single accreditation system for graduate medical education. To date, nearly half of all osteopathic training programs have transitioned to ACGME accreditation with the majority expected to complete the process by the end of 2020. DOs currently have a choice between multiple systems for post-graduate education. In the single accreditation system, most DO and MD students will join in a unified National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), in which participants will have the opportunity to choose residency programs that received “osteopathic recognition.” View the AOA Match results to learn more. Further reading: If at first you don’t match, what’s next? More in Training Being a DO in a heavily MD residency program: What surprised me I was incredibly nervous to join a large MD-dominant internal medicine residency, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much my osteopathic training helped me excel. Free webinar for graduating medical students will share strategies on reducing student loan debt Presented by Student Loan Professor, the April 9 webinar will provide attendees with expert tips on saving money, relieving financial stress and managing their student loans. Previous articleBeyond National Women Physicians Day: Women in medicine rising Next articleHow I practice: Rheumatologist finds a calling and a highly rewarding specialty
Being a DO in a heavily MD residency program: What surprised me I was incredibly nervous to join a large MD-dominant internal medicine residency, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much my osteopathic training helped me excel.
Free webinar for graduating medical students will share strategies on reducing student loan debt Presented by Student Loan Professor, the April 9 webinar will provide attendees with expert tips on saving money, relieving financial stress and managing their student loans.
Let us not be so congratulatory. The total number of graduates for 2018 is 7123. As per your own figures (see https://natmatch.com/aoairp/aboutstats.html), only 27.4% of all Osteopathic graduates are headed for Osteopathic post-graduate training. Even if the other graduates that entered the match still end up in an Osteopathic training program, a full 60.2% are headed for the Allopathic world (and they rarely look back). Sounds like a failure of the schools and the profession. Feb. 21, 2018, at 10:23 am Reply