Why a GME Squeeze Is Unlikely

Viewpoint From 2 Graduate Medical Education Deans Application Overload in the Residency Match Process

“…7,8 The vast majority of applicants must adhere to the ideal application strategy rather than the overapply This TABLE modifies the prisoner's dilemma by using a hypothetical residency match model. The 2005 average number of applications for a specialty, plus an adjustment accounting for the ratio of applicants to positions offered annually, represents an ideal number of applications.…”

The American Board of Family Medicine: New Tools to Assist Program Directors and Graduates Achieve Success

“…Increased numbers of graduates from both US allopathic (MD degrees) and osteopathic (DO degrees) medical schools over the past 15 years create more competition for graduate medical education positions and disproportionately disadvantage international medical graduates (IMGs). 7 The composition of matriculating family medicine residents has changed over the past decade. While the proportion of US graduates with an MD degree has remained stable at approximately 46% of entering first-year residents, over the past decade the percentage of graduates with a DO degree has increased approximately 1% per year, while the percentage of IMGs has experienced a reciprocal decline.…”

Establishing the First Residency Program in a New Sponsoring Institution: Addressing Regional Physician Workforce Needs

“…3 Proposals to address these imbalances are conceptually straightforward, but politically arduous. 2 Primary care and community-based training models represent a small minority of GME positions; yet primary care physicians generally perform better in domains of value, hospitalization rates, and patientcenteredness. [6][7][8] Physicians in frontier regions, such as Montana, are aged (average age 55 to 60), 9 as are their patients.…”