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Charting Outcomes in the Match: Winners & Losers Edition

Sheriff of Sodium

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This summer, the NRMP dropped four new Charting Outcomes in the Match reports. Across over a thousand pages of data, the reports have some fascinating stories - and a few surprises.

Do I even need to ask what time it is?

It’s time to break it down, Winners & Losers style.

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NOTES:

1. All Charting Outcomes in the Match reports are available from the NRMP:

https://www.nrmp.org/match-data/

For quick reference, the 2026 reports are here:

a) MD seniors:

https://www.nrmp.org/match-data/2026/...

b) DO seniors:

https://www.nrmp.org/match-data/2026/...

c) U.S. citizen IMG:

https://www.nrmp.org/match-data/2026/...

d) Non-U.S. citizen IMG:

https://www.nrmp.org/match-data/2026/...

2. I promised links to a couple of previous Sheriff of Sodium videos:

-Charting Outcomes in the Match (2024): Winners & Losers Edition
Charting Outcomes in the Match 2024: Winne...

-The Research Arms Race in Residency Selection.
The Research Arms Race in Residency Selection

3. One additional reference:

Stevens CR, Jacob L, Murina AT. Match outcomes of dermatology applicants who pursue research gap year using the Texas STAR database. J Am Acad Dermatol 2024; 91(3): P575-576.

https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-96...

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SECTIONS

1:16 WINNER: Radiology applicants.

3:13 WINNER: Psychiatry applicants.

7:01 LOSER: Dermatology applicants.

14:24 WINNER: “Kids these days.”

15:46 LOSER: The Research Arms Race.

20:10 WINNER: Outliers.

24:25 LOSER: USMLE Step 2 CK.

31:40 PUSH: First choice matching.

33:58 LOSER: Blue collar applicants.

38:14 LOSER: Anti-DO bias.

47:44 WINNER: Charting Outcomes.

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20 Comments

@gilbertthefish1 2 months ago

Oh good my opinions have finally arrived!

@b_hurd 2 months ago (edited)

“Babe wake up, new SoS just dropped”

@brandonnombrana9322 2 months ago

Wife caught me under the sheets up on my phone listening to the holy word...

@ronakpatel7919 2 months ago

the anki getting put on hold for this

@brycejd 2 months ago

The Sherriff drops on the night before my first day of medical school. What a glorious day.

@abbey3354 1 month ago (edited)

37:10 "Or is it just that work experience is a negative indicator of socioeconomic status, so these applicants have less of everything else that comes with having wealth and financial advantage" UGH THANK YOU for saying the quiet part out loud.

@tristanrolater8580 2 months ago

I used to listen to your videos on the way home from my shifts in the ER as a tech, this was my first video I got to listen to on my way to medical school as a student, fantastic video and data analysis. Thanks Sheriff

@jryan25730 2 months ago (edited)

They made a movie about the kid who went on 53 interviews. It’s called The Odyssey. {I’ll show myself out}

@ZHZ97 2 months ago

No surprise an IM resident had the highest Step 2 score - they already mastered the syllabus on day 1 of residency 😂

@sharpster0 2 months ago

Generational refresh pull. MS4 here procrastinating on my ERAS apps to binge all these sheriff videos

@Fraptero 1 month ago

Having this expanded summary data has made this year's outcomes monumentally more informational, reassuring, and fun to review. This was good advocacy.

@ShinySephiroth1 2 months ago

38:08 I had a PD tell me that, when it comes time for me to apply, that my years in healthcare administration+FACHE and running biotech startups will be a factor bringing my candidacy down because of the optics of me potentially being hard to give orders to on the spot. They said, "People like you, and those with significant military leadership, have in my experience been harder to integrate because you question things and, often, you're right. You see inefficiencies and want to treat residency like a normal job where you stop for a quality control check. We welcome the feedback... but we also need the resident to follow orders at the time the attending gives them and hold onto the feedback for later. That is where I see the challenge foe people like you with a lot of significant leadership. Your challenge is going to be ensuring your narrative in your application and interviews combats that and paints a picture of you being an amazing teammate who will thrive in residency and are focused on becoming a clinician."

@maverickhoonter21xx 1 month ago

When I saw that Charting Outcomes was reporting medians on Step 2CK, research output, et cetera, I was pleasantly surprised. Then I scrolled down to the next page and saw they were also reporting quartiles, IQR, mean, range, and standard deviation, and I was completely blown away. Here’s hoping data reporting in medical education continues to improve (and that it leads to real improvements in medical education itself).

@squib3083 1 month ago

the captain of chloride obeys the sheriff of sodium

@T123456788 1 month ago

The final winner is us for getting to watch your videos!

@MochiHTX 2 months ago

I finished my meal 5 minutes into the video and still stuck around

@sakuraflora3 2 months ago

finally a video that drops when I have gotten into a DO school

@gilbertthefish1 2 months ago (edited)

Genuine highlight of the month watching the new sheriff content. I'm an MS1 this year and I feel like I have a much better grasp on the intricacies and shortcomings of the complex US medical education system. Your work has been so intriguing and valuable to me! Thank you Dr. Carmody!