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Psychiatric News<\/font><\/strong>
by Mark Moran
April 19, 2013<\/div>\n
Psychiatric News<\/font><\/strong>
by Mark Moran
April 19, 2013<\/div>\n
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A new “all in“ policy for this year’s match, along with an increase in the number of medical students, contributes to the increase in graduates choosing psychiatry. A total of 681 U.S. medical student seniors “matched” into psychiatry residencies in this year’s National Resident Matching Program [NRMP]. This is an increase from 616 in 2012, or from 3.9 percent to 4.2 percent of seniors selecting careers in psychiatry.<\/font> The uptick in graduates entering the profession is good news for psychiatry, reversing a trend of several years in which the numbers were dropping. Last year’s figure of 616 was a decrease from 640 the year before and 670 in 2010…<\/strong><\/sup><\/div>\n
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This year the NRMP instituted an “all in” policy whereby residencies were required to enter all of their residency slots in the match. In past years, programs could participate in the NRMP by registering and filling some available residency positions, while also reserving some to be filled outside the match. In short, programs could decide which positions were “in” the match and which were “out.” So with the “all in” policy there were more slots offered in the match: in psychiatry, 1,360 positions were offered [compared with 1,118 in 2012]. And of the 1,360 slots, 1,330 were filled…<\/strong><\/sup><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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