Table 5. Selected Surgical Subspecialty Match Rates by Year.
Match data for analysis appended from published National Resident Matching Program data sets [2,6,8,9].
ENT: otolaryngology; DO: osteopathic; MD: allopathic
| Neurosurgery | p-value | ||
| DO match rate | MD match rate | 0.000324403 | |
| 2023 | 0.25 | 0.778598 | |
| 2022 | 0.375 | 0.734545 | |
| 2021 | 0.428571 | 0.736059 | |
| 2020 | 0.166667 | 0.74359 | |
| Thoracic Surgery | p-value | ||
| DO match rate | MD match rate | 0.00030925 | |
| 2023 | 0.166667 | 0.431579 | |
| 2022 | 0.25 | 0.539474 | |
| 2021 | 0.166667 | 0.483146 | |
| 2020 | 0.125 | 0.410256 | |
| Plastic Surgery | p-value | ||
| DO match rate | MD match rate | 1.98041E-06 | |
| 2023 | 0 | 0.74902 | |
| 2022 | 0 | 0.615658 | |
| 2021 | 0.1 | 0.698745 | |
| 2020 | 0 | 0.699153 | |
| General Surgery | p-value | ||
| DO match rate | MD match rate | 0.000668152 | |
| 2023 | 0.5625 | 0.72442 | |
| 2022 | 0.534005 | 0.721881 | |
| 2021 | 0.621253 | 0.691489 | |
| 2020 | 0.594118 | 0.749637 | |
| Vascular Surgery | p-value | ||
| DO match rate | MD match rate | 0.002104564 | |
| 2023 | 0.235294 | 0.815217 | |
| 2022 | 0.0625 | 0.72 | |
| 2021 | 0.230769 | 0.691489 | |
| 2020 | 0.5 | 0.743902 | |
| ENT | p-value | ||
| DO match rate | MD match rate | 0.017570499 | |
| 2023 | 0.676471 | 0.817942 | |
| 2022 | 0.512195 | 0.682505 | |
| 2021 | 0.432432 | 0.682819 | |
| 2020 | 0.515152 | 0.736342 | |
| Orthopedics | p-value | ||
| DO match rate | MD match rate | 0.011203815 | |
| 2023 | 0.50211 | 0.728617 | |
| 2022 | 0.541463 | 0.649171 | |
| 2021 | 0.618497 | 0.748394 | |
| 2020 | 0.632768 | 0.791234 | |