How did your College of Pharmacy do in the Pharmacy Residency Match?
In this episode of the Pharmacy Residency Podcast, I discuss the residency match and how the scramble can be a great avenue to a career with excellent work-life balance, so don't give up. In addition, I've compiled the rankings for the residency match by actual match percentage. It's kind of crazy that the match rate for PGY1 went down this year, and the PGY2 rate went up, each by a small percentage.
Note that this data can sometimes be skewed; for example, if there are 10 applicants for residency and three get employment before actually going into the match, there will be five left. If all five applicants match, the match rate is 100%.
However, if those five students never got an interview, the match rate is still 100% even though it should be closer to 50%; they didn't register for the match because, with no interview, there could be no match.
Finally, I only listed the top 100 schools so as not to embarrass those schools with very low match rates. My goal was simply to make the data more accessible and available, if you use the RANK feature in Excel, you can readily calculate where your college of pharmacy's rank is if it is below the top 100 from the primary data.
If you're curious, the average PGY1 match rate was around 81%.
It is always interesting how the US News and World Report Pharmacy School rankings have very little correlation to match rates, as three of the schools that matched at 100% are ranked 56th, 86th, and 99th, and two don't even show up in the results.
Clinical / Staff Pharmacist / Servant Leader
7 个月UMSOP just posted it had a 92% match rate this year, so not sure why it’s different from the one listed. Also, the US News rankings mainly look at reputation surveys, so really subjective.