Inefficiencies in Residency Matching Associated with Gale-Shapley Algorithms.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate emerging trends and increasing costs in the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) and San Francisco Residency and Fellowship Match Services (SF Match) associated with the current applicant/program Gale-Shapley-type matching algorithms.

Design

A longitudinal observational study of behavioral trends in national residency matching systems with modeling of match results with alternative parameters.

Methods

We analyzed publicly available data from the SF Match and NRMP websites from 1985 to 2020 for trends in the total number of applicants and available positions, as well the average number of applications and interviews per applicant for multiple specialties. To understand these trends and the algorithms' effect on the residency programs and ap

SUBMITTER: Wu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9927996 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature