High dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes

Background: Medical students are anxious about not getting a preferred residency position. We described elective patterns of two recent cohorts and examined associated match outcomes. Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of the final-year electives of all students who participated in th...

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Autores principales:	Carol Ann Courneya, Winson Y. Cheung, Janette McMillan
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Publicado:	Canadian Medical Education Journal 2019
Materias:	Education (General) L7-991 Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1ca03259fe2e4bb0af7df138c18d6ae12021-12-01T22:43:45ZHigh dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes10.36834/cmej.530181923-1202https://doaj.org/article/1ca03259fe2e4bb0af7df138c18d6ae12019-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/53018https://doaj.org/toc/1923-1202 Background: Medical students are anxious about not getting a preferred residency position. We described elective patterns of two recent cohorts and examined associated match outcomes. Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of the final-year electives of all students who participated in the residency match (first iteration) at one school for 2017 and 2018. We categorized elective patterns and associated them with aggregated match outcomes. We examined high-demand/low-supply (HDLS) disciplines separately. Results: We described three elective patterns: High Dive, Parallel Plan(s), and No Clear Pattern. Many students had High Dive and Parallel Plans patterns; only a few showed No Clear Pattern. Match rates for High Dive and Parallel Plan patterns were high but many students matched to Family and Internal Medicine. When we separated out HDLS predominance, the match rate remained high but a significant number matched to disciplines in which they did not have a majority of electives. Most High Dive and Parallel Plan students who went unmatched did so with HDLS discipline electives. Conclusion: Many students chose High Dive and Parallel Plan strategies to both high-capacity and HDLS disciplines. Match rates were high for both patterns but students also matched to non-primary disciplines. Back-up planning may reside in the entire application, and not just electives selection. Carol Ann CourneyaWinson Y. CheungJanette McMillanCanadian Medical Education JournalarticleEducation (General)L7-991Medicine (General)R5-920ENCanadian Medical Education Journal, Vol 11, Iss 3 (2019)
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spellingShingle	Education (General) L7-991 Medicine (General) R5-920 Carol Ann Courneya Winson Y. Cheung Janette McMillan High dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes
description	Background: Medical students are anxious about not getting a preferred residency position. We described elective patterns of two recent cohorts and examined associated match outcomes. Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of the final-year electives of all students who participated in the residency match (first iteration) at one school for 2017 and 2018. We categorized elective patterns and associated them with aggregated match outcomes. We examined high-demand/low-supply (HDLS) disciplines separately. Results: We described three elective patterns: High Dive, Parallel Plan(s), and No Clear Pattern. Many students had High Dive and Parallel Plans patterns; only a few showed No Clear Pattern. Match rates for High Dive and Parallel Plan patterns were high but many students matched to Family and Internal Medicine. When we separated out HDLS predominance, the match rate remained high but a significant number matched to disciplines in which they did not have a majority of electives. Most High Dive and Parallel Plan students who went unmatched did so with HDLS discipline electives. Conclusion: Many students chose High Dive and Parallel Plan strategies to both high-capacity and HDLS disciplines. Match rates were high for both patterns but students also matched to non-primary disciplines. Back-up planning may reside in the entire application, and not just electives selection.
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title	High dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes
title_short	High dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes
title_full	High dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes
title_fullStr	High dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes
title_full_unstemmed	High dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes
title_sort	high dives and parallel plans: relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes
publisher	Canadian Medical Education Journal
publishDate	2019
url	https://doaj.org/article/1ca03259fe2e4bb0af7df138c18d6ae1
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High dives and parallel plans: Relationships between medical student elective strategies and residency match outcomes

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