Match Results

It was fascinating for me to see the results of this year's match list for the graduating class (composed about 50-50 of students who matriculated in the class of 2010 and 2009 since a large proportion of us take a year off to do research, pursue other degrees, have a family, or accomplish other things). 151 of us are going into residency next year. Here are some highlights:
-12 family medicine, 11 internal medicine (IM) primary care, 1 IM/preventative medicine combined, 1 pediatrics primary care, representing 16.5% going into definite primary care.
-30 internal medicine, 1 peds/IM combined, 11 peds, 11 ob/gyn, representing 35% who may go into primary care or subspecialize.
-4 neurosurgery! Wow!
-Along with neurosurgery, 6 surgery, 4 urology, 3 plastics, 6 orthopedics, 1 oral-maxillofacial representing 16% surgeons.
-For the "ROAD" to success, we have 5 radiology, 1 ophthalmology, 10 anesthesiology, 2 dermatology, and 2 PMNR (not in the mnemonic but probably should be) representing 13% of the class.
-The two most popular non-medicine specialties were emergency medicine (11% of the class) and surprisingly, psychiatry (9% of the class).
-A ridiculous 77% of us are staying in The Golden State. 30% of the class is staying at UCSF, 21% of us are staying in the Bay Area, and 21% are going down to southern California.
-The next most popular state was Washington, drawing 7% of us followed by Massachusetts (5%) and New York (4%).