Most Competitive Doctor Specialties [2024 Update]

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@MedSchoolInsiders 3 ай бұрын

🚨 Since the release of this video, we had to make a few updates. Though the NRMP included USMLE Step 1 scores in their data, this was only for the 13.3% of applicants who had taken exams prior to January 26, 2022. For this reason, we removed Step 1 entirely and increased the weight of Step 2 scores, which residency programs now place much more importance on. To offset the removal of Step 1, other factors, such as match rate and publication items, were also adjusted. Note that after making these adjustments, the top 5 most competitive specialties remained in the same order; however, the total points for each changed, putting more distance between the top 3 specialties. In other words, more accurately factoring in the weight of Step 2 scores made the placement of the top 3 specialties more definitive. View the updated data here: medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/most-competitive-specialties/

@Isaidhi7 2 ай бұрын

What about the specialities ranked #6-10? And what about Ophtho and Urology?

@mustang8206 4 ай бұрын

Gunners are gunning even in the comment section

@Artemis25 4 ай бұрын

ikr its so cringy

@MegaNaggor 4 ай бұрын

What's a Gunner?

@genericuser-1 4 ай бұрын

@@MegaNaggor Americans who shoot other people who get in their way of their career prospects

@DaPhuqBoom Ай бұрын

Gooners are gooning

@logandavis7584 4 ай бұрын

Would be very interested in you made a video showing the overall competitiveness for the top 5 vs bottom 5 specialties over the past decade and comparing how they shake out. Love the video!❤

@davidwg4967 4 ай бұрын

In France now the most competitive surgeries (as a med stud, I saw the differences between the choice of those who had the best scores) : - 1. Dermatology 2. Plastic surgery (13 plastic surgery residency on the 8000 French students going through the big specialty exam) 3. Ophthalmology 4. Cardiologist 5. Anaesthetist 6. ENT 7. Radiology 8. Oncology

@dr.kevinyoo5722 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the uodated info at all times. Appreciate it!

@user-ok1hl8jj1n 4 ай бұрын

Can you do fellowships sometime! It seems like a good new video idea, and I’m sure a lot of us are curious!

@mytube785 4 ай бұрын

From NRMP data, can it answer the following? 1). For US MD Seniors who applied for Internal Medicine residency programs in 2024, what was the percentage of them who matched to the top 3 choices on their Rank list? 2). For US MD Seniors, which Internal Medicine residency programs are most competitive match? (Maybe the ratio of the number of applicants matched to the program vs. the number of applicants ranked the program.)

@cherry-g9s 4 ай бұрын

Even though that neurosurgery is one of the most competitive specialties in 2024 I still know i can become a neurosurgeon

@The0ffical._.Chad. 4 ай бұрын

Rightt.

@ugonwigwe5136 4 ай бұрын

u can do it. most young ppl dont want to go into nsg anymore, the lifestyle is the worst of all the specialties by far. worst residency of all time and it marginally gets better as an attending. i wanted to do it at first but i have come to value lifestyle more the closer i get to med school and shifting interests but there are nsgs who do it and love it

@The0ffical._.Chad. 4 ай бұрын

@@ugonwigwe5136 I just don’t think I can do 14 to 16 years of school. The most I could probably do is 12.

@ugonwigwe5136 4 ай бұрын

@@The0ffical._.Chad. i dont mind the years (i think) but the hours per week are too much. they regularly violate the 80 hr/wk limit into the 90s and 100s. its too much

@SABreakout 4 ай бұрын

I will become a cardiothoracic surgeon one day

@caratfusearoha7317 4 ай бұрын

same

@ARbmw-v9u 4 ай бұрын

Same man🙏

@crimansizers5840 4 ай бұрын

I personally think IM - Cardio is a better time investment but that is just me. Good luck :)

@SABreakout 4 ай бұрын

@@crimansizers5840 yeah just that I am fascinated with the heart

@mustang8206 4 ай бұрын

@Spencer_Thatcher Ай бұрын

In the middle of my M1 year and Im 100% lifestyle for my Residency. Worked long hard hours in the Army for years, early mornings and late nights for 1/10th the compensation. Making $100K a year after taxes would be more money than I ever made in my best years. The fact that I can Clear $200K after taxes fairly easily with almost any Residency is just gravy to me. Debts are manageable when you control your borrowing during education and spending after Residency. Life is Good and Im gonna make it no matter what I choose but im thinking about dinner with my family every night over making the big $$$$$

@deliciousnutritious6805 4 ай бұрын

It does not matter how competitive each speacialty is. If you want it, you can achieve whatever specialty you desire through the work you put in. ❤✨

@kyleslifestyle8541 4 ай бұрын

That's not true. My best friend graduated valedictorian of his class. He had tons of recommendation letters from top doctors, and got put into Neurosurgery (a residency he didn't even select as an rol.) He wanted to be a plastic surgeon. He applied 3 times to have his residency changed, and after the 3rd denial to move him to even dermatology, he quit completely and moved into managing projects for a wind solar company. He said being miserable in a field he didn't want wasn't an option for him. He said he hasn't paid a dime on his medical student loans and never will. Moral of the story, you get to pick 3 residencies you like and an algorithm is going to decide your fate weather it's one you picked or not. It's also possible you won't match at all. . . I'm not trying to be sinical, just be prepared for anything.

@howie6768 4 ай бұрын

I thought because ENT is such a small field, its match rate fluctuates like crazy compared to larger specialties.

@mustang8206 4 ай бұрын

There's enough So You Want To Be videos to explain what each specialty does. In these videos I think you should spend more time explaining why each position landed where it did

@pokeshack7560 4 ай бұрын

Agreed

@MedSchoolInsiders 4 ай бұрын

We aim to strike a balance for first time viewers and returning. Many people who watch this video haven't seen any of our So You Want to Be episodes.

@BradyButler-c4x 14 күн бұрын

What specialty would encompass detective work in the form of more complex cases with a lot of variety with a general focus on disease/conditions over acute injury? Maybe something like IM or some kind of radiology? I’m also comfortable with surgery and working with my hands. Lifestyle and compensation aren’t my primary concerns here, does anyone have any suggestions? Currently a student

@RachelOreoluwa 3 ай бұрын

I'm actually 15 years old and I actually have been watching lots of videos from Doctor Jubal I'll certainly be a Surgeon although it's tedious but I know one day I'll be an exceptional Surgeon

@willay8837 4 ай бұрын

I’m really curious as to how one gets so many publications

@vik7082 4 ай бұрын

one of the main ways is instead of publishing 1 big paper, they break it down into 2 or 3 or even more smaller parts

@drusc8547 4 ай бұрын

For any 1 project too, you can get 1 paper, multiple posters/ presentations/ abstracts for different conferences. A case study is also a fast writeup that can get the same as above. These also arent just first authors, get a group of students and write a section each and you can get lots of output for minimal work

@joelcalafell9743 14 күн бұрын

It’s multiple case reports and papers that the student may be the 4th/5th writer. The amount of repetitive research out there is ridiculous. Most students just do fluff research.

@bryanbartnick4664 4 ай бұрын

I have a question, if it is known that a medical school is "more competitive" and often ranked higher if they have their students match into the more competitive specialties, why do so many push their students to do rural primary care, for example? At least from a business perspective, I don't understand.

@Golferperson1 4 ай бұрын

Step 1 scores should not be a large factor this. You are wrong about students in the cohort still having step 1 scores. The only ones that do are people who took research years. Go back and look through the charting data for individual specialties. 90%+ have step 1 scores of 'unknown', aka they took P/F step 1. Step 2 was the primary score for this dataset. This is why you are seeing large drop-offs for step 1 some of these specialties. It doesn't make sense to use step 1 scores as the most important factor when the vast majority of applicants in this dataset have no score.

@soggychip6302 4 ай бұрын

I was also wondering why Step 2 score was a lower impact factor than research and step 1. Ive heard of programs across multiple specialties that screen purely from step 2 scores and then invite interviewees based on other parts in their application afterwards.

@MedSchoolInsiders 4 ай бұрын

Didn’t catch that 90% had unknown step 1 score. We’ll have to re-run the analysis!

@Isaidhi7 4 ай бұрын

@@MedSchoolInsiders Did you guys?

@blitzwolfer1892 3 ай бұрын

Hello Neverlusen!!

@aidanodonnell751 4 ай бұрын

Hey Kevin! Can I suggest a possible video talking about medical mission work for both premeds and physicians?

@redrexwolf2602 4 ай бұрын

Love you brother

@otstudios1260 2 ай бұрын

Are these lower step 1 scores because of DEI being implemented in hospitals and for the selection of residents?

@Mein_KampfyChair 4 ай бұрын

I'm a first year med student now, but I'm tired. I don't want to compete so hard anymore. I'd be happy with one of the less competitive specialties like neurology/ pathology I think

@bigoprotege 3 ай бұрын

While some students were scored for STEP1 the majority of match applicants in 2024 took a STEP1 pass/fail so you're using a data point in your 2024 match analysis that was irrelevant to most match applicants.

@MedSchoolInsiders 3 ай бұрын

We've updated our index to reflect this. There will be an update about removing Step 1 in our upcoming Least Competitive Specialties video. Note, that even with the adjustments, the top 5 most competitive specialties remained in the same order.

@bigoprotege 3 ай бұрын

@@MedSchoolInsiders cool. That's good to know.

@coldFire473 4 ай бұрын

Don’t know if it made too much of a difference in the final outcomes, but having Step 1 weighted so highly is a pretty flawed method. 2024 was the first class to have Step 1 P/F. Step 1 only still got reported because of folks that took more than 4 years to graduate (research years/dual-degree students). Would probably have flipped the weighting for that and Step 2CK. My guess is we’d be looking at roughly the same outcome though

@MedSchoolInsiders 4 ай бұрын

Well re-run the data and update

@malcolmcollins4732 4 ай бұрын

@@MedSchoolInsiders I also think the average research items for Radiology is inputted incorrectly. It says 4.4?

@MedSchoolInsiders 3 ай бұрын

@crimansizers5840 4 ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to the 10 least competitive specialties (ie: what the rest of us match into lol)

@mustang8206 4 ай бұрын

Some mix of EM, FM, Peds, IM, Psych, and PM&R

@crimansizers5840 4 ай бұрын

@@mustang8206 PMR has become more competitive lately. My guess: 1. Family Med 2. Peds 3. EM 4. Internal Med 5. Neuro 6. Psych 7. Pathology 8. PM&R

@mustang8206 4 ай бұрын

@@crimansizers5840 PM&R has become more competitive but I don't think it's out of the top 10 yet, but since more and more people want a lifestyle specialty I wouldn't be surprised if it does leave the top 10. I know I definitely don't want a specialty that has me working 80-100 hours a week

@MedSchoolInsiders 4 ай бұрын

Coming soon!

@mytube785 4 ай бұрын

It’d be much more useful to have a list of residency programs for a specialty ordered by match rate (i.e. ratio of the number of applicants matched to a program vs. the number of applicants ranked the program). Then a program can provide the data for the number of applicants applied to the program and the number of applicants interviewed by the program. All these data should be readily available, and can provide much better transparency. These data can help an applicant to a specialty to apply, thus reduce the number of programs that they apply. All these fancy dances of geographic signaling and program signaling are so ridiculous as they’re touted as ways to reduce the number of programs that an applicant submits MyERAS to.

@mendozaja14 4 ай бұрын

Can you plz do a vid about Radiation Oncology

@BuffaloHunter9000 4 ай бұрын

Would love a So You Want to Be a Nephrologist still!

@blackxsheep29 4 ай бұрын

WE STILL MATCHING ENT

@jordanlee2837 4 ай бұрын

gunners gunna gun

@bobythomas3292 3 ай бұрын

Please do a video on radiation oncology

@lovelylibra7349 4 ай бұрын

Can you create a video on the internal medicine pediatrics hybrid residency 🙏🏽 please

@dallinj4579 4 ай бұрын

You should do the most competitive and least competitive medical schools.

@mustang8206 4 ай бұрын

Go to MSAR and sort by highest GPA and MCAT and then go to Choose DO and sort by the lowest GPA and MCAT

@Mein_KampfyChair 4 ай бұрын

They're all competitive. Except for Caribbean programs

@mustang8206 4 ай бұрын

@@Mein_KampfyChair least competitive ≠ uncompetitive

@joelbadders3303 4 ай бұрын

Wait I’m confused. I took Step 1 in 2022 when it was pass/fail and I matched this year. Only a small number of match applicants from this year would’ve taken Step 1 in 2021 when it was scored. Those who did take it in 21 either took it early or were re-applicants. I don’t think Step 1 data should be included in the 2024 match data

@joelbadders3303 4 ай бұрын

Or they did a research year

@MedSchoolInsiders 4 ай бұрын

We will rerun the data and update!

@MedSchoolInsiders 3 ай бұрын

@bobythomas3292 3 ай бұрын

How about radiation oncology

@kenzab4258 3 ай бұрын

When they talk about the average number of publications in a specialty, would that be the number of publications the candidate has taken part in only during medical school or would it also consider the ones they did in pre-med or gap years?

@MedSchoolInsiders 3 ай бұрын

All research items, even prior to medical school, can be mentioned and counted when applying to residency.

@sncmn2758 4 ай бұрын

Pm&r?

@mkoo7000 2 ай бұрын

The articles say Radiation Oncology is 10th on both the MOST and LEAST competitive specialties list 🤔🤔🤔

@MedSchoolInsiders 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for catching that! The Least Competitive list containing Radiation Oncology is correct. There was a slight reshuffling when we updated the data to remove Step 1 scores that wasn't reflected in the Most Competitive blog post yet. This is the accurate, and updated, Most Competitive list: 1. Dermatology 2. Neurosurgery 3. Plastic Surgery 3. Orthopedic Surgery 5. ENT 6. Interventional Radiology 7. General Surgery 8. Diagnostic Radiology 9. Vascular Surgery 10. Anesthesiology

@aayusharyal8468 4 ай бұрын

You need to do Med school vs PA school vs NP school a new version to update it

@sparktaylor8489 4 ай бұрын

Anyone know how competive Anesthesia is?

@ZackAttack1798 4 ай бұрын

It’s competitive, but there are so many spots that open for anesthesia that it doesn’t rank super high on “most competitive.” Surgical specialties open fewer residency spots (especially those like orthopedic and neuro), so fewer can match. Dermatology gets a ton of applicants because of lifestyle.

@MedSchoolInsiders 4 ай бұрын

Anesthesia ranks 11th out of 22 specialties on our Competitiveness Index.

@akae.5707 15 күн бұрын

@@MedSchoolInsiders where can I find the full list of 22?

@FutureDocta Ай бұрын

I was really interested in Ortho. Its so fun and something i would love to do for the rest of my life. But im not going to pump out 30 meaningless research pubs and take a whole research yesr off just to match. I just bope the people going for these competitive specialties are doing it for the right reasons

@ckwon960329 4 ай бұрын

Integrated Thoracic surgery?

@acd1168 4 ай бұрын

They never talk about it but I think it is competitive.

@bluethunder9102 4 ай бұрын

Anything surgical is competitive

@juanpablovalenciaarias4246 4 ай бұрын

I'm going to be anesthesiologist one day

@ImEnhalos 4 ай бұрын

i feel like half of this video was just plugging other vids/websites, pls stop

@Noooooooooooooooooooooo0 4 ай бұрын

10:22 those supply and demand curves are backwards 😂

@richoffks 4 ай бұрын

PRS for me babyyy

@dr.sungod2129 4 ай бұрын

So is cardiology not competitive anymore?

@MedSchoolInsiders 4 ай бұрын

It's the most competitive Internal Medicine subspecialty. But it's technically a fellowship, so it's not included in this assessment.

@ejirogheneokei4969 4 ай бұрын

I will win open door scholarship this year , become a doctor and later specialise on cardiology

@wwefan12398 3 ай бұрын

step1 should have been excluded. majority of matriculants did not take step1, only the ones who took gap years previously and applied with the current matriculants took the exam

@MedSchoolInsiders 3 ай бұрын

Since this video was posted, our index was updated to remove Step 1 and more heavily weight Step 2. The changes did not impact the order of the top 5 most competitive. We'll be discussing this more in our Least Competitive Specialties video coming out in a few weeks. Updated Data: medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/most-competitive-specialties/

@The0ffical._.Chad. 4 ай бұрын

I wanted to become a neurosurgeon, but schooling is too long 14 to 16 years? So I’m gonna become a dermatologist. 💜 12 years is the most I can do.

@brady4190 4 ай бұрын

Well 4 years undergraduate, 4 years medical, then most likely 7 years residency which is still schooling in a way but u r getting paid.

@The0ffical._.Chad. 4 ай бұрын

@@brady4190 ty

@connorjoseph6852 2 ай бұрын

This sounds like AI Kevin Jubbal

@connorjoseph6852 2 ай бұрын

And it really makes the video less enjoyable tbh. How long can it actually take to read the script?

@MedSchoolInsiders 2 ай бұрын

It takes a long time! Dr. Jubbal still records each video himself. In fact, this week, our video creation is paused because he has a cold and can't record. Sometimes we will replace 1 word of a script with AI if there's a correction but this is very rare, and did not occur on this video.