title: Losing the match game: few residency slots leave more graduates unmatched.
abstract: An increasing number of medical graduates in the country, particularly in Texas, are finding it hard to match to a residency program in their preferred specialty. While medical educators say there are various reasons for that, almost all point to a growing imbalance in the ratio of medical graduates to residency slots. That imbalance is particularly apparent in Texas, where the state offered fewer first-year residency positions in 2010 than it had medical graduates.
authors.affiliation: ken.ortolon@texmed.org
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ortolon
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States