San Francisco—Match Day for the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) was March 15 this year. If you fared poorly, you might be pleased to read that the NRMP ratings do not correlate well with eventual competence.
If the findings of one institution have broader applicability to others across the country, then the order found by the NRMP process bears little resemblance to faculty assessments of ultimate competence during the residency program. Paradoxically, the