AOGME Match 2023 Brief Analysis

AOGME Match 2023 Brief Analysis

The 2023 Residency Match: Outcomes for Osteopathic Medical Students

The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) match resulted in an all-time high in the number of positions and participants in 2023. U.S. DO seniors saw an increase in participation with 7,436 participants, an increase of 133 more students than last year. This year, DO seniors achieved a match rate of 91.6 percent, a 0.3 percent increase from 2022 and an all-time high in the NRMP match. The match rate for DO graduates was 47.9 percent, a slight decrease from last year.

In the fourth year of a single match for osteopathic medical students, the overall trend is positive. In addition to the NRMP match, osteopathic medical students also participate in earlier matches: the military match, San Francisco, and urology matches.

This year there was a total of 40,375 positions in the NRMP match. 37,425 were PGY-1 positions, an increase of 3.2 percent compared to last year. 37,690 positions were filled in the match, an increase of 747 or 2.0 percent compared to last year. 34,822 PGY-1 positions were filled this year, an increase of 2.2 percent over last year. There were 2,658 positions offered in the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP), an increase of 17.5 percent compared to last year.

DOs in Primary Care and Non-Primary Care

U.S. DO seniors filled family medicine positions at a rate of 29.7 percent, slightly higher than that of U.S. MD seniors. However, before SOAP, family medicine had 577 unfilled positions, followed by emergency medicine at 554 unfilled positions and surgery preliminary (PGY-1 only) at 551 unfilled positions.

The specialties with the highest percentages of positions filled by DOs were osteopathic neuromusculoskeletal medicine (ONMM) (40.9 percent), physical medicine & rehabilitation (PM&R) (35.9 percent), emergency medicine pediatrics (33.3 percent), family medicine (29.75 percent) and emergency medicine (29 percent). Specialties with the lowest percentages of positions filled by DOs were plastic surgery (0 percent), radiation oncology (0 percent), neurological surgery (1.2 percent), thoracic surgery (2 percent), vascular surgery (4.3 percent), otolaryngology (6.2 percent) and interventional radiology (7.8 percent).

Overall, match rates for DO seniors increased in child neurology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, PM&R, psychiatry and surgery. There was a slight decline in the match rate for DOs in anesthesiology and diagnostic radiology.

Sources:

https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-Advance-Data-Tables-FINAL.pdf

https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-Match-by-the-Numbers-FINAL.pdf

https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-Match-Day-Press-Release-FINAL.pdf