Competitiveness of a specialty’s match is related to projected income

Mark Ebell, MD (University of Georgia) just published an article indicating that a higher salary in a particular specialty tends to mean more U.S. med students fill residencies in that specialty at academic hospitals.

For example, family medicine had the lowest average salary last year at $186,000; it also had the lowest share of residency slots filled by U.S. students (42%). Orthopedics, on the other hand, paid $436,000, and 94 percent of residency slots were filled by U.S students.

I think it’s hard to blame U.S. med students for this trend: the Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the average graduate last year had $140,000 in student debt (up nearly 8 percent from the previous year). Yikes!

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About Dr. Michelle Finkel

Dr. Michelle Finkel

Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to
stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital.
She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated
Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more

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