Transcript Match According to JoMo 2014-2015
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Match* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) Or, the World According to JoMo, the Program Director Jon B. Morris, M.D.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs Professor of Surgery
Letters of Recommendation MSPE Crafted by OSA JoMo Meetings – Reality Therapy
April May June July Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Class Meeting #1 Class Meeting #2 Interview Workshop
Class Meeting
MSPE Released Oct. 1
The Process
(April-Nov. 2014)
Interviews Advocacy Call
October November December January February March
Rank List Deadline (Applicants & Programs) Match Day
The Process
(Nov. – March 2015)
Anatomy of the MSPE
• • • • • • Identifying Information Unique Characteristics (Two 125 word paragraphs) Academic History ( matriculation, graduation, combined degree, repeat/remediate, adverse actions, gaps, leaves of absence ) Academic Progress (the “cut and paste”) • Preclinical Basic Science • • Core Clinical Electives Combined Degree Summary • MD/PhD Summary • Masters Degree Summary Summary Paragraph • Bottom Line
MSPE Bottom Line Distribution
Class of 2011 Class of 2012 Class of 2013 Class of 2014
Top of the Class
4% 6% 5% 9%
Outstanding
29% 31% 38% 55%
Excellent-Outstanding Excellent Very Good to Excellent Very Good Good
25% 37% 3% 2% 33% 27% 3% 22% 32% 3% 34% 2% -
AOA
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Criteria/Selection 1/6 th of Class Eligible Academics Research Extra Curricular Selection Process Students Notified by Sept. 1 (ERAS) Will be Mentioned in MSPE
JoMo’s Rules
Everything is Discoverable Nothing is Off the Record Everything Gets Back to the Program Director
High Contact Areas: Applicants and Programs
Phone Conversations Email Receptions Tours Interviews
The Interview – The Basics
Are You a Human Being?
Did You Do Your Homework?
Post-Interview Strategy: Rules of Engagement
PD/Applicants may volunteer information but cannot coerce or pressure each other.
Required Reading
Manipulation and the Match
By Carl Erik Fisher, M.D.
JAMA,
September 23/30, 2009 – Vol. 302. No. 12
The Goal of Coercion
PDs – want to convince all applicants that they are takes.
Applicants – want to convince all programs they are coming.
The Tools of Coercion
Letters Email Phone Calls Second Visits
The Language of Coercion
Applicants: I loved your program.
I will be ranking you highly.
You are at the top of my list.
I would be honored and thrilled to train at your program.
The Language of Coercion
Program Directors How are your other interviews going?
If you want to match with us, let us know.
How seriously are you considering our program?
Why would you want to come to our program?
Rising on a Rank Order List
Be a Superstar Passive Osmotic Ascent Advocacy Call
Rank Order List Strategy: Getting to the Top
Ranked to Match 10 20 Take Group (3 cycles) 30 40 Bubble 50 60 70 80 DNR 90 100
• • • Assume a program takes 10 categorical residents.
Assume the program interviews 100 applicants.
The advocacy call has its greatest impact on the
bubble
group.
Why Would a PD Respond to an Advocacy Call?
PD is a human being PDs want applicants that want their program The selection process is not infallible
Why Some Don’t Match
• • • • Applied to inadequate number of programs Disconnect between academic record and career choice Interview Performance Bad luck
The Golden Rule of ROL Creation
• Only rank programs where you would be willing to train. Do not rank any program that you do not wish to attend.
Penn Med Residency Match Data
2013
160 Total graduates Total residency placements Matching at University Program 157 149/157 = 94%
2014
171 164 157/164 = 96%
Specialty Match Data
Specialty Anesthesiology Dermatology Emergency Medicine Family Medicine Internal Medicine Medicine/Dermatology Neurological Surgery Neurology Obstetrics and Gynecology Ophthalmology Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery Otolaryngology Pathology Pediatrics Plastic Surgery Psychiatry Radiation Oncology Radiology-Diagnostic Surgery Urology Total # of Students 4 7 17 2 32 1 3 8 % of Students Matching 2.4
4.3
10.4
1.2
19.5
0.6
1.8
4.9
10 13 3 9 8 3 14 1 4 4 7 11 3 164 6 7.9
1.8
5.5
4.9
1.8
8.5
0.6
2.4
2.4
4.3
6.7
1.8
99.7% Surgery & Surgical Specialties General Surgery Neurosurgery Ophthalmology Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery Otolaryngology Plastic Surgery Urology Total # of Students 11 3 13 % of Students Matching 6.7
1.8
7.9
3 9 8 1 3 51 1.8
5.5
4.9
0.6
1.8
30% Primary Care Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Total # of Students 2 32 14 48 % of Students Matching 1.2
19.5
8.5
29.20%
Matching at Penn, 2014
Total
HUP CHOP Scheie Penn Hospital Number of Students
42
35 5 2 0 % of Students Matching
26%
22% 3% 1% 0%
Matches at Other Premier Institutions: Class of 2014
Institution
• • • Harvard Brigham & Women’s Hospital Children’s Hospital Boston Massachusetts's General Hospital University of California San Francisco (UCSF) New York University Weill Cornell Medical Center Barnes Jewish/Washington University Johns Hopkins Columbia University Medical Center University of Michigan University of Washington University of California Los Angeles University of Texas Southwestern University of Virginia Stanford University of Chicago University of Miami Bascom Palmer University of Pittsburgh University of Texas MD Anderson
# of Students Matched
2 1 1 1 1 1 26 Total (9) (3) (14) 12 9 6 4 4 4 4 4 2 2
What You Need to Do
• Meet with JoMo before
Sept. 1 st
• • • • • Tuesdays and Friday mornings Call 215-898-7190, or email [email protected]
YOU MUST MAKE AN APPOINTMENT BEFORE MAY 15, 2014!
No JoMo = No MSPE Remember Early Match Programs Ophthalmology, Urology • Unique Characteristics Paragraphs • Submit to OSA by
June 1 st
Unique Characteristics Paragraphs
•
Due to [email protected]
by June 1, 2014 These paragraphs should be no more than 250 words total. An additional paragraph may be added for time spent doing a year out. Each paragraph is to be written in the third person. See the Student Portal for samples. Paragraph 1:
• The introduction is a succinct chronology of a student’s entry and progress through medical school. Pre-matriculation academic, social or employment background characteristics may be included.
Paragraph should include:
• • • • College, degree date, major, minor Advanced Degrees Membership in honors societies, graduation honors, significant extra-curricular activities If you did not enter med school immediately after graduation, describe your activities •
Paragraph 2:
Paragraph should include
: • • • Employment, extra-curricular activities (e.g. triathlon, raised quintuplets, etc..), committees, class officer Fellowships, awards, accomplishments If you took a year off, please include your activities
What You Need to Do
• Personal Statement • Solicit Letters of Recommendation • Next class meeting –
late May
• MyERAS opens; students may begin working on application –
Mid- April
• ERAS Opens to Programs –
Sept. 15 th