2010 COM graduates are preparing to enter the next stage of their professional lives following the February 8 release of the pre-scramble 2010 Osteopathic Match results. Administered by the National Matching Services, Inc., on behalf of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the match provides an orderly process to help students enter the program of their choice and training programs get the students of their choice. Since July 1, 2008, the OGME-1 has been restructured and the mandatory traditional rotating osteopathic internship replaced with either an optional rotating internship or an internship that tracks into a field of medicine or surgery (http://opportunities.osteopathic.org/search/Attention_Students-Match_Information.pdf). More than 600 osteopathic residency programs in more than 200 hospitals participated in this year’s match program, which partnered 78 percent of osteopathic student and graduate participants with osteopathic residency or internship positions.
Pre-scramble match results include:
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Forty-six percent of 3,845 graduating seniors participated; 49 percent were non-participants and 5 percent were military, the same percentage results pre-scramble in 2009.
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Sixty percent (or 1,473 of 2,443) of AOA positions were filled, compared with 59 percent pre-scramble in 2009. Although 40 percent (970) positions were not filled, only 19 percent (334) of graduating senior participants were not matched due to a mismatch in specialty and/or location preferences.
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Forty-eight percent (or 322 of 672) of family medicine positions were filled, compared with 51 percent pre-scramble in 2009.
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The number of funded positions changed little: 2,443 this year, compared with 2,435 in 2009.
Although the 2009 post-scramble results are not yet available from the AOA for comparison, many of the unfilled positions last year were filled in the post-match scramble process and similar results are expected this year.
For more information, visit http://www.do-online.org/index.cfm?au=D&PageId=aoa_profmain&SubPageId=sir_match10res.