Bahng is a
PGY-1 resident physician in Emory University's gynecology & obstetrics residency program.
Thomas is Director,
PGY-1 and PGY-2 Residency Programs, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Psychiatry, Chillicothe Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Chillicothe, Ohio.
(*) An entry-level discipline is an Entry Route in the
PGY-1 (R1) match.
The 2019 Match set a record for most positions offered (35,185; up 6.1%), most positions filled (up 4.8%), most
PGY-1 positions offered (32,194; up 6.5%), and total applicants (38,376; up 3.4%).
Of those completing the matched pretests and posttests, there was 1 postgraduate year 1 (
PGY-1) resident, 3 PGY-2 residents, 4 PGY-3 residents, 4 PGY-4 residents, and 3 fellows.
There were a total of 1,740
PGY-1 psychiatry slots offered in 2019, up from 1,556 in 2018, for an increase of 11.8%.
A total of 38,376 applicants in 2019 submitted program choices for 35,185 positions, a 6% slot increase from 2018, while the number of available first-year (
PGY-1) positions rose to 32,194, an increase of 6.5% (1,962) from 2018, according to data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
Answer
PGY-1 PGY-2 PGY-3 PGY-4 PGY-5 PGY-6 Total Family 2 1 1 1 0 0 5 medicine Internal 7 3 3 1 0 0 14 medicine Orthopedic 2 1 1 0 1 0 5 Surgery 2 1 0 1 1 1 6 Transitional 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 year OB/GYN 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 Colon and 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 rectal surgery Total 17 6 5 4 2 1 35 Skipped 49 out of 83 10.
Both unmatched interns were able to continue in their training at a PGY-2 level; the unmatched researcher began at a
PGY-1 level.
Internal medicine brought 7,542
PGY-1 positions--more than any other specialty--to the Match Day party this year and filled 44.9% of them with U.S.
The highest rate of sharps exposures was observed in PGY-4 residents, with the lowest rate of exposures occurring in
PGY-1 residents (Fig.
Atreyee Basu,
PGY-1 Resident Department of Pathology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV