Fewer physicians are pursuing emergency medicine

By The DO Staff

11.02.23

The 2023 match saw 555 emergency medicine (EM) residency positions go unmatched. This increase from the previous year, when 219 positions were initially unclaimed, signifies medical students’ waning interest in the specialty, triggering alarm and introspection across the field. Night shifts, no lunch break, little continuity of care have always been well-known downsides of the EM physician “grin-and-bare-it” existence. What has changed?

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