{"pk":9926,"title":"The Cost and Burden of the Residency Match in Emergency Medicine","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Abstract\n \n Background \n \n \nIn order to obtain a residency match, medical students entering Emergency Medicine (EM) must complete away rotations, submit a number of lengthy applications, and travel to multiple programs to interview. The expenses incurred acquiring this residency position are burdensome, but there is little specialty specific data estimating it.\n \nObjective \n \nWe sought to quantify the actual cost spent by medical students applying to EM residency programs by surveying students as they attended a residency interview.\n \nMethods\n \nResearchers created a 16-item survey, which asked about the time and monetary costs associated with the entire EM residency application process. Applicants chosen to interview for an EM residency position at our institution were invited to complete the survey during their interview day.\n \nResults\n \nIn total, 66 out of a possible 81 residency applicants (an 81% response rate) completed our survey. The “average applicant” who interviewed at our residency program for the 2015-16 cycle completed 1.6 away or audition rotations, each costing an average of $1,065 to complete. This “applicant” applied to 42.8 programs, and then attended 13.7 interviews. The cost of interviewing at our program averaged $342 and in \ntotal\n, an average of $8,312 would be spent in the pursuit of an EM residency.\n \nConclusions \n \nDue to multiple factors, the costs of securing an EM residency spot are escalating at an alarming rate. By understanding the components that are driving this trend, we hope that the academic EM community can explore avenues to help curtail these costs.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"emergency medicine, cost of residency, ERAS, debt"}],"section":"Original Research","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zx8006r","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jeffrey","middle_name":"S","last_name":"Bush","name_suffix":"","institution":"Medical University of South Carolina","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Simon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Watson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Medical University of South Carolina","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Aaron","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Blackshaw","name_suffix":"","institution":"Medical University of South Carolina","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2016-06-16T00:31:58Z","date_accepted":"2016-06-16T00:31:58Z","date_published":"2016-12-20T01:17:40Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/9926/galley/5447/download/"}]}