What Will Be Needed for the New Gastroenterology Fellowship Match to Succeed?

The cumulative distribution of programs that started interviewing by the time of any given 2-week period. Match Start 05, interview dates of internal medicine subspecialties that participate in the SMS match for positions starting in 2005; Start 03 and Start 05, start dates of interviewing for GI fellowship positions beginning in 2003 and 2005, respectively (data from Freida online [http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2997.html] and from Niederle and Roth¹¹); Start 06 Survey, the replies from the survey of GI program directors to the question of when they started interviewing for 2006 positions; Start 07 Survey, the answers to the question of when GI program directors expected to start interviewing for 2007 positions (without a centralized match, for programs that do not start interviewing before August).

Dates of open offers by fellowship program. Each program is represented by one of the horizontal lines, indicating the dates during which it was making offers.

Proportion of programs at different stages of the hiring process.