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.acofp.org/resources/publications/archives/0109/0109_2.html http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/reprint/108/3/127.pdf