Osteopathic Residency Match and Scramble

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Osteopathic Residency Match
and Scramble
Doctor Dan
Medical School Podcast
www.Medical-Mastermind-Community.com
Overview
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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
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AOA Residency (internship incl.)
AOA Prelim. (mostly at same institution)
AOA Traditional Internship (stand-alone)
ACGME (internship)
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 ABMSAOA 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
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– 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.acofp.org/resources/publication
s/archives/0109/0109_2.html
http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/reprint/108/3/127.pdf