Introduction

This notebook was created to analyze the match data from The Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont for the years 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2019. These data are publically available on the UVM College of Medicine website (http://www.med.uvm.edu/studentservices/careerplanning/matchlists) and a cleaned dataset without identifiers may be found in the data folder.

Briefly, 'The Match' is the final outcome of a proprietary algorithm owned and operated by the National Resident Matching Program. This algorithm integrates student rank lists and residency program rank lists into an optimal outcome and designates each student to a program.

In March, medical students across the United States discover where they will be attending residency (a quite exciting day for everybody!).

The purpose of this notebook is to analyze class data and their match outcomes.

Notebooks will run without adjustement of the repository for the UVM match data.

Instructions to use this notebook for your own match data:

• Collect/clean your data
• Get column format to = ['year','specialty','num_students']
• Update the data_path variable in class_stats.ipynb