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Originally Posted by BrendaB_MD
I have often cautioned against comparing match stats. There are a number of reasons that make such comparisons silly. The data are inaccurate and to do it well you would have to control for stats (USMLE scores) and the number of people who apply for each specialty. But, curiosity got the better of me so I decided to ignore my own advice. Here is a comparison of Saba vs SGU:
I compared primary care (FM, IM, Peds, Psych) vs nonprimary care placements. The Saba data is nicely organized by speciality so I included all the data. The SGU data is organized by name so I went alphabetically until I got tired.
Here it is:
SGU primary care:112
non primary care: 27
SABA primary care:101
non primary care: 26
Chi Sqr = 0.046 (p<0.17)
There is no real difference -- at least from the data I included. Feel free to submit your improved analysis. |
you know you CAN organize the sgu stuff by specialty, just click on the tag specialty and it will organize by it (as opposed to the default alphabetical names)...
plus this was comparing UAG and SGU, not saba- the drop in match numbers at UAG should be of a concern...is it because less are applying to the US for residency OR is it because less are matching into US spots (even if the same number are applying).
so you should use these numbers for sgu
primary care = 292
non-primary care =132
though i think primary care usually doesn't include psych and instead includes ob/gyn.