Promoting Access of Osteopathic Medical Students to Surgical Residency Training Programs

Petree, Brandon S; Heard, Matthew A; Schenarts, Paul J.; Beaty, Jennifer

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“…This created a large disparity as traditionally osteopathic medical schools are not necessarily affiliated with teaching hospitals that have graduate medical education programs. Of note, 75% of osteopathic medical schools are without an affiliated General Surgery Residency program [ 13 ]. Students without a home program may be limited in their ability to complete audition rotations.…”

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Identifying Attitudes Toward and Acceptance of Osteopathic Graduates in Surgical Residency Programs in the Era of Single Accreditation: Results of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons Medical Student Section Questionnaire of Program Directors

Heard¹,

Buckley²,

Burns³

et al. 2022

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Identifying Attitudes Toward and Acceptance of Osteopathic Graduates in Surgical Residency Programs in the Era of Single Accreditation: Results of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons Medical Student Section Questionnaire of Program Directors

Heard¹,

Buckley²,

Burns³

et al. 2022

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Equal but Separate: The Slow Assimilation of Osteopathic Surgery Residents Two Years After the Unified Match

Bello,

Lyles,

Owens

et al. 2023

Journal of Surgical Education

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An analysis of osteopathic medical students applying to surgical residencies following transition to a single graduate medical education accreditation system

Williamson,

Martinez,

Ojo

et al. 2023

Journal of Osteopathic Medicine

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Context Upon requests from osteopathic medical schools, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Charting Outcomes were redesigned to include osteopathic medical school seniors beginning in 2018 and one joint graduate medical education (GME) accreditation system, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), formed in 2020. Objectives The goal of this study is to analyze the match outcomes and characteristics of osteopathic applicants applying to surgical specialties following the ACGME transition. Methods A retrospective analysis of osteopathic senior match outcomes in surgical specialties from the NRMP Main Residency Match data from 2020 to 2022 and the NRMP Charting Outcomes data from 2020 to 2022 was performed. Results For surgical specialties, results show matching increased as United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 CK (clinical knowledge) and Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX) Level 2 CE (cognitive evaluation) scores increased along with the number of contiguous rankings (p<0.001). The greatest indication for matching looking at scores alone were those who scored greater than 230 on Step 2 CK compared to below (p<0.001) and above 650 on Level 2 CE (p<0.001). However, those who scored 240 (p=0.025) on Step 2 CK were just as likely to match as those who scored 250 (p=0.022) when compared to those who scored below those scores. Increasing research involvement had little to no significance with the likelihood of matching across most surgical subspecialties. Conclusions Our study demonstrates that there are unique thresholds for Step 2 CK scores, Level 2 CE scores, and the number of contiguous ranks for each surgical specialty that, when reached, are significantly associated with match success. Although certain board score delineations are linked with higher match success rates, the rates level off after this point for most surgical specialties and do not significantly increase further with higher scores. In addition, thresholds within contiguous ranks for increasing match likelihood exist and vary across surgical specialties. Overall, this study highlights that the quantitative metrics utilized to assess applicants lack the correlation reported historically, and the data presently available need to be more substantiated.

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Promoting Access of Osteopathic Medical Students to Surgical Residency Training Programs

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Identifying Attitudes Toward and Acceptance of Osteopathic Graduates in Surgical Residency Programs in the Era of Single Accreditation: Results of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons Medical Student Section Questionnaire of Program Directors

Identifying Attitudes Toward and Acceptance of Osteopathic Graduates in Surgical Residency Programs in the Era of Single Accreditation: Results of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons Medical Student Section Questionnaire of Program Directors

Equal but Separate: The Slow Assimilation of Osteopathic Surgery Residents Two Years After the Unified Match

An analysis of osteopathic medical students applying to surgical residencies following transition to a single graduate medical education accreditation system

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