Data-driven insights on the residency match.
From 1,782 interviews applicants scheduled this season: more than a third fall Nov 2 to 20, Thanksgiving week and the holidays are nearly empty, the median interview is 37 days after the invite, and invites almost never arrive on a weekend.
Read more →Day 20 of the 2026-27 residency interview season: 85% of emergency medicine programs have sent invites (45% at this point last cycle), 97 ophthalmology programs released together on Oct 13, signals and who gets invited, and a fifth of applicants holding half the invites so far. With a page for every specialty.
Read more →Pediatrics has 15% fewer MD applicants than at this point in ERAS 2023, while international graduates are up 56% and now make up half the pool. The median program interviewed 86% of MDs who signaled it and 59% who didn’t.
Read more →Diagnostic radiology has 16% fewer applicants than at this point in ERAS 2023, with MDs, DOs and international graduates all down. The median program still interviewed 71% of MDs who sent it a gold signal, and a quarter of MD applicants now also apply to IR.
Read more →PM&R has 20% more applicants than at this point in ERAS 2023, almost all of it MDs (+19%) and DOs (+40%). After the move to 20 signals, the median program interviewed 1% of MDs who didn’t signal it, down from 13%. What that means for a U.S. MD applicant.
Read more →Diagnostic radiology has 16% fewer applicants than on the same day of ERAS 2023, the steepest drop of any specialty, while the applicant pool as a whole is flat and applications are down sharply. Five seasons of AAMC ERAS data by MD, DO and IMG, with a page for each of 23 specialties.
Read more →Across 1,001 completed cycles, sending more applications did not produce more interviews in any band. What predicts matching is the interview count, and it stops paying at about ten. Plus the gap nobody prices: within pediatrics, a US MD gets 7.2 interviews per 10 applications and a non-US IMG gets 1.3.
Read more →Publications, AOA, clerkship honors, research: we modeled each against real interview outcomes across 23 specialties, holding the program fixed. 45% of the estimates show no measurable independent effect, and in dermatology credentials barely register until you signal.
Read more →Nobody publishes away-rotation response times. Across 3,347 applications and 265 programs with a measurable wait, the median decision takes 22 days and the middle 80% runs 9 to 46. Response times by specialty and by program.
Read more →Analysis of 20,304 Dermatology applicants across 139 programs. Applicants with no away rotation and no geographic tie see invite probability jump from 8% to 39% with a signal (4.8x lift). For applicants with an away rotation, signaling does not add. Here is how to allocate your 28 signals.
Read more →DOs match IM at 95.2% vs 97.9% for USMDs (a 2.7 pp gap). The genuine structural gap shows up in WHICH programs each cohort ends up at: bottom-quartile IM programs invite 46% DOs, top-quartile invite 24%. At Step 2 CK 260+, the per-program invite gap closes entirely.
Read more →A quantitative, step-by-step strategy for matching psychiatry in 2026. Signals give ~10x match lift, away rotations add +16pt, geographic ties give 5x. Seven concrete moves, backed by NRMP data, with the exact Rezumab tools to execute on each.
Read more →Comparative analysis: US MD applicants to psychiatry grew 56% from 2016 to 2024 - the highest of any specialty and 6.5x the baseline rate. Meanwhile Pediatrics, EM, and Rad Onc shrank. Psychiatry is not just following a trend - it is the trend.
Read more →Applicant volume +44%, publications +103%, Step 2 +8 points, AOA +48% since 2016. The 2024 unmatched psychiatry applicant had a higher Step 2 than the 2016 matched applicant. NRMP data, US MD Seniors only.
Read more →Quantitative breakdown of psychiatry match rates, Step 2 CK, signals, and away rotations. Based on NRMP Charting Outcomes and real applicant-level data from ~1,500 psychiatry applicants.
Read more →Complete breakdown of match rates, Step 2 CK scores, research stats, and IMG rates across 22 specialties. Real NRMP Charting Outcomes data with specialty-by-specialty comparison tables.
Read more →A deep dive into ophthalmology-specific match rates, Step scores, research expectations, and what matters most - based on NRMP Charting Outcomes and AUPO/SFMatch data.
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