Defending the residency Match and its algorithm
KevinMD.com recently published the article “It’s time to make the Match disappear” written by medical student Amy Ho. I firmly agree with her that the current match system is wildly inefficient and needs fixing. However, she is throwing the baby out with the bath water in abandoning the algorithm which yields an extremely effective system.
Firstly, when one examines her data, which in itself is correct, one also needs …
