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I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
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General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
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Poster
Sub Type
Education Research
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Title
Identifying Correlations in National Match Results
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Background/Purpose
One of the most public outcomes for a MD program is the number of unmatched students each year. We wanted to explore if the percentage of students matching to the same institution they graduated from had a relationship with the unmatched percentage. Additionally, to explore if the percentage of graduates with Family Medicine as a first choice had a strong relationship with lower unmatched rates.
Methods
Data was gathered from the CaRMS website R1 first round data 2015 to 2019 (n=85). (https://www.carms.ca/data-reports/r1-data-reports/) and analyzed with SPSS 25. Aggregating Table 42 allows us to report on national match percentages for students who stay in the same institution.
Results
There is a suggested relationship between Family Medicine as a first choice discipline (%) and unmatched students by school of graduation (%) (Pearson Correlation of -.339) . There was no relationship between percentage of students staying in the same institution and percentage of unmatched students (Pearson Correlation of .128) There was a strong negative correlation between the of percentage students staying at the same institution and the percentage matching to their top rank discipline (Pearson Correlation of -.503).
Conclusion
Although there is only a small proportion of CaRMS data available for schools to understand their graduating classes match result, there is some evidence that indicates a high local match rate is not a definitive solution for a match with a high first choice discipline result. It would be enlightening if CaRMS would release the rank order of schools of residency by school of graduation.
Keyword 1
CaRMS
Keyword 2
Unmatched
Keyword 3
correlation
Level of Training
Undergraduate
Abstract Themes
Undergraduate
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Student Affairs
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Authors
Presenter
Chris Naugler
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