Table 2.

Data From Specialties Offering Fewer Than 10 Signals

Specialty	Percentage Difference in Average No. Applications per Applicant (Pre- vs Postsignaling Era)	Percentage Difference in Total No. Applicants Pre- vs Postsignaling Era)	Match Rate Mean Difference (Pre- and PostSignaling Era)
Internal medicine	6.6	1.0	−0.6
General surgery	7.2	−7.8	0.7
Psychiatry	5.0	−11.4	3.5
Emergency medicine	−14.7	19.5	3.2
Family medicine	−7.6	−11.1	5.1
Pathology	7.1	−20.9	3.0
Pediatrics	−0.4	−11.1	5.6
Plastic surgery	−18.2	−3.0	4.5
Neurology	5.5	−8.2	2.3
Thoracic surgery	−6.5	−60.8	0.2