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I join the NRMP board of directors

In the 1990's I worked closely with the NRMP on the resident match, and since then I've bee…

How will the pandemic affect the medical Match?

Some thoughts on the medical match in JAMA: Potential Implications of COVID-19 for the 2020-2021 Re…

Interview congestion in the Ophthalmology Residency Match

An ophthalmology residency program surveyed all its applicants on their experience in the match: Cu…

Allocating and reallocating scarce medical supplies

An op-ed in USA today points out that shortages of critical hospital supplies are occurring and wil…

Choosing who to interview in the sports medicine fellowship match

Little is known about what goes on between application to fellowship (or residency) programs, and r…

Applications and interviews prior to matching in Orthopaedic Surgery

It takes many applications and interviews to match for orthopaedic surgery residencies... Matching …

More proposals for reducing applications and interviews before medical resident matching

If the number of proposals for reform is an indicator of a brewing problem (and I think it is), it&…

Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE Step 1) to change from grades to pass/fail, to prevent over-reliance by residency programs

Among the concerns surrounding residency applications, interviews and matching is that the USMLE st…

Residency explorer (for new doctors)

Amidst all the concerns about the ballooning number of applications and interviews involved in prep…

Early admissions for medical residencies? An anguished response to the increasing numbers of applications and interviews.

Here's a proposal to introduce something like the early admissions programs that have become co…

U.S medical school enrollments by sex: women outnumber men for the first time

There are now more women than men applying to U.S. medical schools, being accepted (to the first ye…

Interviews in the Medical Physics residency match (too many, and what to do about it..)

Medical physics has a residency match, and like other residency matches it is suffering from (appar…

More chaos in the medical resident interviewing process

Not only do graduating medical students go on (too) many interviews for residency positions, but th…

Lovely short film about the resident match by Dr. Trisha Pasricha

Here's a charming and insightful 11 minute video by the remarkable physician-filmmaker Dr. Tris…

NRMP Match Day, 2019

Today is match day, when imminent medical grads find out where they'll be starting residencies …

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