Dear uislakom-ga,
To start, here is a list of statistics on residency programs in the US
from the ACGME (Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education):
http://www.acgme.org/adspublic/reports/specialty_prognum.asp
This site lists all specialties and the number of programs and
residents participating.
More to your specific question, the ACGME also provides a public
listing of all programs in the US, with contact information. This is
searchable in several ways, including by specialty and state. Here is
the link:
http://www.acgme.org/adspublic/reports/program_specialty.asp
You may also find interesting their listing of programs that are on probation:
http://www.acgme.org/adspublic/reports/probationaryStatus.asp?adspublicptr=13x2
At times, programs also close their residency programs for any number
of reasons, including poor reviews by the ACGME, failure to achieve
accreditation, or insufficient variety or number of cases for resident
training. You can find a listing of these programs here:
http://www.acgme.org/adspublic/reports/withdrawn_progs.asp
Other ACGME resources in this vein can be found at the main residency program page:
http://www.acgme.org/adspublic/default.asp
Another excellent resource is the American Medical Association FRIEDA
(Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database):
http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/srch/
This lists over 7800 residency and fellowship programs and gives more
information than the ACGME resources listed above, including (when
provided by the programs) number of positions at each level - i.e.,
they list how many people they are planning to take in the Match this
year, as well as how many residency positions they have at each
advanced level (e.g. 2nd year residents, 3rd year, etc.). FRIEDA also
lists (again, when the programs provide the info) information on
typical work hours, percentage of residents who complete the program,
salaries, whether or not the program is participating in the Match for
this year and next year, any US government affiliations, requirements
for application, deadlines for application, when interviews are
conducted, number of faculty, percentage of faculty who are female,
amount of vacation time, maternity/paternity leave policies,
moonlighting policies, night float info, amount and frequency of call
at various residency levels, etc. It is a tremendous resource.
A word of caution, the AMA FRIEDA database does not always contain all
programs that participate in the early SF Match. For more details on
these programs, you should look at the SF Match database:
http://www.sfmatch.org/
The public directories of programs under each link (near the middle of
the page) provide direct links to each program's web site. More
details (including contact information) can be obtained via SF Match
by registering or simply going to the program's web site. I have
found that over the past couple of years the SF Match web site has not
been well updated and the links are, unfortunately, not as reliable as
one might expect for an organization dealing with very competitive
residency matches.
The SF Match site also posts vacant residency and fellowship positions
at all levels with contact information. These are often out of date
and many of these positions are filled, but remain posted on the SF
Match web site. It still remains the best source for finding out
about such openings.
Another source for open residency positions is the Find-A-Resident
site (a service of the American Association of Medical Colleges -
AAMC):
https://services.aamc.org/findaresident/
This site allows residency program directors post open residency
positions and allows residents looking for positions to search for
open positions. The fee for the service is $30 if you are registered
with the regular ERAS/NRMP match program and $70 if you are not. You
can get a summary of open positions (to see if there's anything you
would potentially be interested in applying for) by following the
"here" link near the bottom of the page above. Here's the current
list:
35 Total Programs Advertising
49 Total Positions
Anesthesiology
2 Programs Advertising
PGY3:2 Position(s)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY4:1 Position(s)
Child Neurology (Neurology)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY3:3 Position(s)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Psychiatry)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY6:1 Position(s)
Family Medicine
2 Programs Advertising
PGY1:3 Position(s)
10 Programs Advertising
PGY2:12 Position(s)
Hematology and Oncology (Internal Medicine)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY4:2 Position(s)
Internal Medicine
5 Programs Advertising
PGY2:5 Position(s)
3 Programs Advertising
PGY3:5 Position(s)
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
1 Programs Advertising
PGY3:1 Position(s)
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (Pediatrics)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY4:1 Position(s)
Neurology
1 Programs Advertising
PGY3:1 Position(s)
Orthopaedic Surgery
1 Programs Advertising
PGY2:1 Position(s)
Pediatrics
3 Programs Advertising
PGY2:3 Position(s)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY3:1 Position(s)
Psychiatry
1 Programs Advertising
PGY2:1 Position(s)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY3:1 Position(s)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY4:1 Position(s)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY5:2 Position(s)
Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine)
1 Programs Advertising
PGY5:1 Position(s)
Radiology-Diagnostic
1 Programs Advertising
PGY3:1 Position(s)
To get details on any of these positions, you would need to register
at the site and pay the fee.
I hope this answer was helpful. Please feel free to ask for any clarification.
-welte-ga |
