EM Leaders Call for Stop to New or Expanded Programs
Unfilled emergency medicine (EM) residency slots spur appeal for limits. Residents say the rise of corporate EM discourages students from choosing the specialty.
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Unfilled emergency medicine (EM) residency slots spur appeal for limits. Residents say the rise of corporate EM discourages students from choosing the specialty.
In 2022, 6.7% of the graduates of medical schools and 8.2% of the graduates of from DO schools did not match. That means thousands of graduates must wait or choose another path. That path could be medical research or some other medical field. Some end up leaving the field.
While USD graduates do well in residency placements, the process is demanding, said Dr. Lori Hansen, the dean of medical student affairs at the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota.
'It's not a system that any of us would've designed,' says Match data expert
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