The Influence of Academic Pedigree on Integrated Plastic Surgery Resident Training Location

Davis, Greta; Dean, Riley A.; Reid, C.; Gosman, Amanda

doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.03.021

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“…Because of the lack of concrete and reliable rankings for plastic surgery programs, we opted to use Doximity "reputation" rankings in this study, as has been done by several prior studies. 10,12,13 Still, Doximity rankings are subjective, and although popular among aspiring medical students, they may not have accurately captured the top 50th percentile of integrated plastic surgery programs. Nevertheless, given it being the only ranking that has been of pertinent longitudinal utility, we felt that its application in the current chronologically vertical study was well justified and supported.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of COVID-19 on Plastic Surgery Home Program Match Rates

2021

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Background: Historically, integrated plastic surgery is one of the most competitive specialties in the residency match. In the 2020-2021 residency application cycle, plastic surgery programs were forced to adjust how they select applicants because of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting visiting subinternships. We hypothesize that a higher proportion of plastic surgery applicants matched at their home institution during the 2020-2021 application cycle secondary to the implementation of COVID-19-related restrictions. Methods: Between March 24 and 27, 2021, we used publicly available, online plastic surgery-specific spreadsheets to analyze plastic surgery applicant information over the course of 3 application cycles (2018-2019, 2019-2020, and 2020-2021) for the top 50 plastic surgery programs. We collected data corresponding to the matched plastic surgery applicants' medical school, the institution at which they matched, and whether they had previous communication with their matched program. Results: Our search yielded information on 128 applicants from the 2019 match cycle, 129 applicants from the 2020 match cycle, and 133 applicants from the 2021 application cycle. In 2019 and 2020, 15 (11.7%) and 22 (17.1%) plastic surgery applicants matched at their home program, respectively. In 2021, 32 (24.1%) of plastic surgery applicants matched at their home program (P = 0.032). When stratified by reputation rank, home program match rates among programs ranked 1-25 in 2021 had a large increase over the 2020 match cycle (28.4% vs 16.7%), whereas the home match rates of programs ranked 26-50 in 2021 (17.3%) held level with that of 2020 (17.6%). Conversely, for those not matched to their home programs, only 20 (19.8%) in 2021 reported having had any prior contact with their matched programs compared with 54 (50.5%) in 2020 (P < 0.001). Conclusions: The 2020-2021 plastic surgery application cycle matched a significantly higher proportion of applicants at their home institution. With the temporary discontinuation of visiting subinternships during the 2020-2021 application cycle, it is likely that both plastic surgery programs and applicants compensate for this loss of in-person exposure by turning to home applicants and home institutions, respectively.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Plastic Surgery Home Program Match Rates

2021

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“… 6 There was no change in the statistical significance of applicants from Top 40 programs matching at higher ranked research programs; however, the representation of medical students from Top 40 medical schools successfully matching overall was statistically increased (p = 0.002). 7 Comparisons to historical controls are outlined in Table 2 .…”

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“…Home institution matches represent about 15% of successful matches and visiting subinternship matches represent a higher proportion at 27% to 30%. 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 …”

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Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on 2021 Integrated Plastic Surgery Match Outcomes

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Butterworth

2022

Journal of Surgical Education

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“… 1 The home match rate seen this year is comparative to pre-pandemic data (p=.63). 1 , 16 Self-reported visiting sub-internship data was identified for an additional 71 applicants. This data was combined with the known 29 home program matches identified via Instagram posts to total a group of 100 applicants for whom we could determine in-person exposure to a program prior to the match.…”

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confidence: 99%