Just out of curiosity, what are the % in the parentheses?

I am confused by these figures...

Is this to say just over 100 residency spots, or about 18%, were filled by Asian and Caucasian males in 2007? That would really be an eye-opener if true.

Clarification?

I am confused by these figures...

Is this to say just over 100 residency spots, or about 18%, were filled by Asian and Caucasian males in 2007? That would really be an eye-opener if true.

Clarification?

well of course there's some overlap as i'm sure some of those minority applicants are women as well.

but the 326 number is definitely a typo... that would mean half of the matched applicants this year were women, not 11%! just looking around i know that cannot be the case.

It looks like the data is based on the ~2900 current orthopaedic residents (R1-R5), not on the individual incoming class of 2007.

326 women would be 11% of total orthopaedic residents

82% of ortho residents are white/asian/middle-eastern/etc men, which makes sense

To clarify the data above is the stats of ALL the ortho residents TOTAL in 2007 ( not the match data!) across the country.

This data is from the AAOS Diversity Board (from this years academy in SF).

The match characteristics for LAST years match 2007 can be found on AAMC or NRMP under match results by specialty.

So to clarify of the 2,000+ CURRENT residents in ortho as of 2007 there were only
105 AA's (4% of all residents)
69 Latino/Hispanic (<3% of all residents)
14 Native American (<1% of all residents)
326 Females (12% of all residents) -there may be overlap in this categor as some of the females may be an ethnic minority

So yes the reality is that the other ~80% of residents total in 2007 are made up of caucasians, Asian and East Indian ethnic groups.

Now the data of PRACTICING Orthopods is even more daunting (data from 2006)
Females ~3%
AA & Hispanics combined <2%


Hope that clarifies even though noone has Pm'd me their info...........there were minorites who matched this year right??

RJOS published in their last newsletter the data for women applicants for ortho residencies in 2007.