Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was another banner year for the most competitive (and highest-paying) surgical subspecialties. Every single position in neurosurgery, orthopedics, otolaryngology, and vascular/thoracic/plastic surgery was filled in the Match. We won’t know the exact match rates by specialty until the NRMP releases the new Charting Outcomes reports in a few months. (That’s because the preliminary data don’t account for applicants who apply in multiple specialties. However, unless you analyze by an applicant’s preferred specialty, it’s impossible to know whether an applicant to a particular specialty was completely unmatched – or didn’t match in that specialty because they successfully matched into a more preferred specialty.) Still, just eyeballing the numbers, I think we’re going to see record low match rates in orthopedics, plastic surgery, and possibly otolaryngology, with U.S. Meanwhile, the majority of the categorical positions left over for the SOAP were in (lower paying) primary care specialties and emergency medicine. However, the categorical specialty with the greatest proportion of unfilled positions was again radiation oncology.
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