Figure 3.

Case study of dermatology and plastic surgery reveals disproportionately higher unmatched rates and lower rates of parallel planning among Plastic Surgery applicants

A) Modified waffle plot depicting relative first iteration match outcomes for CMGs who ranked Dermatology and Plastic Surgery as their first discipline. B-G) Boxplots comparing match and electives metrics for Dermatology and Plastic Surgery from 2013 - 2019. P-values were obtained through two-sided t-tests. ns=not significant; * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001; **** p < 0.0001. B-D) Depictions of discipline competitiveness, proportion of applicants unmatched in first iteration, and the probability of being unmatched for applicants who did not match to their first discipline. E-G) Depictions of the mean number of electives that CMGs who matched reported completing, the diversity of their electives across disciplines, and the proportion of applicants who submitted parallel applications to other disciplines.