sunymed Registered User Posts: 4 (10/29/00 9:40:17 am) Reply Number of ortho spots I was wondering just how many first year residency spots there are in orthopedics. I have read numbers ranging from 280 to 559. Does anyone know or can direct me to a place where I can find this info. If there are 559 positions in ortho, then shouldn't it be much, much easier to get into than ENT or Urology, which only have some 230-240 first year positions. My medical school itself has double the number of ortho spots compared to uro/ENT (6 vs. 3). Your responses will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jason aaos staff Registered User Posts: 1 (10/30/00 11:54:15 am) Reply 1998 stats from the AMA Results Selection Criteria Specialty/Subspecialty: Orthopaedic Surgery General Program Information Number of accredited programs 157 Academic year 1998 Length of accredited training 4/5 Minimum number of prior years required 1/0 Offers graduate year 1 (GY1) positions, available immediately upon medical school completion No Application Information Average number of GY1 applications 310.0 Average number of GY1 interviews 48.9 Residents Number of active residents/fellows 2759 Percent females 7.2% Percent international medical graduates 2.1% Faculty Average number of full-time physician faculty 14.9 Average number of part-time physician faculty 2.7 Average number of volunteer physician faculty 24.3 Resident Work Hours (During Program Year 1) Average hours on duty per week 67.7 Average maximum consecutive hours on duty 30.5 Average days off duty per month 5.2 Work Environment and Compensation (During Program Year 1) Average percent of training in hospital outpatient clinics 29.6% Average percent of training in non-hospital ambulatory care community settings 6.0% Average percent of training in managed care settings 8.2% Average resident/fellow compensation $34,486 ABC123 Registered User Posts: 3 (10/30/00 2:16:37 pm) Reply Re: Number of ortho spots Check out medschool.com specialty profiles. You can also look at Freida online for general info as well. ENT-less spots with fewer applicants vs. ortho=very competitive ORTHO-more spots with more applicants=still damn competitive sunymed Registered User Posts: 5 (10/30/00 4:23:08 pm) Reply Re: Spots So then I guess urology and ENT are harder than orthopedics to get into. I don't quite understand the AAOS staff member's information. If there were 310 applications for ortho, and there are 559 spots, then shouldn't everyone have gotten a spot? Also, where can I find this same information on ENT and Urology. I don't think FREIDA online has this info, unless I am mistaken. Does anyone have any thoughts on why ortho. suddenly became a lot less competitive last year (from 21% unmatch rate to 14% unmatch rate) Thanks, Jason OrthoDoc ezOP Posts: 20 (10/30/00 7:39:08 pm) Reply Re: Spots I assume that those stats are average number of applications per program which is consistent with where I trained. We usually received around 300-400 applications per year for 4 residency spots. However, you have to remember that most people in the application pool is applying to 40+ programs a year which drives up the number of applications per program.