The Emergency Medicine Match: How We Got Here and Where We Go Next (CDEM Sponsored)

The last three Match cycles have been consequential for EM. Residency applicants are not choosing to apply to EM at nearly the same rate as they were just 5 years ago, leaving many programs unfilled. There have been many speculations as to how EM ended up in its current situation. As such, the EM Match Task Force has surveyed EM applicants to gain a better understanding of medical student perspectives.

This session will cover applicant perspectives on EM, the factors influencing the recent Matches, and insights on applicant decision making behavior. Our expert panel will then discuss important conclusions and insights that we can take from applicant input. Finally, the panel will offer possible strategies to consider going forward and elicit audience input and questions. The audience will understand factors important to residency applicants which have contributed to recent Match results in EM. The audience will consider potential strategies for the EM Match in future years. The audience will identify important factors of EM that have had an adverse effect on applicant behavior.

Presenters:

  • Mike Kiemeney, MD
  • Erin McDonough, MD
  • Lauren E. Lamparter, MD
  • Brian Milman, MD
  • Miriam Kulkarni, Associate Professor
  • Jonathan Fisher, MD, MPH



Authors

  • Mike Kiemeney, MD

    Loma Linda University School of Medicine

    Dr. Kiemeney completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. His residency training was completed at East Carolina University/Vidant Medical Center. Dr. Kiemeney is now Program Director at Loma Linda University Health. Areas of interest include Medical Education, wellness, mentorship, and the Match. He currently serves as Co-Chair for the multi-organization CORD Match Task Force. Investigating the driving forces of recent applicant behavior and decision making as well as those of Program Directors has allowed the Task Force to develop potential strategies that may contribute to successful EM Matches in the future.

  • Erin McDonough, MD

    University of Cincinnati

    Dr. McDonough is the Residency Program Director and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She completed her medical school education at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, graduating in 2004. She then trained at the University of Cincinnati, completing her Emergency Medicine residency training in 2008 (serving as Chief Resident in 2007-2008) and then a Neurocritical Care and Neurovascular Emergencies Fellowship in 2010. After training, she joined the faculty at UC as an Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She has served as Program Director since 2017.

  • Lauren E. Lamparter, MD

    University of Illinois Chicago

    My name is Lauren Lamparter, and I am a PGY3 at the University of Ilinois Chicago. I am originally from Southern California, and next year I will be a Multimedia Design Education Technology Fellow at the University of California Irvine. As the Immediate Past Presidnet of AAEM/RSA, I have enjoyed advocating for medical students and residents for improved residency standards, unionization, and an understanding of the Match trends. I am presenting at SAEM as a representative of RSA to the CORD Match Task Force.

  • Brian Milman, MD

    University of Texas Southwestern

    Dr. Brian Milman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. He completed his emergency medicine residency at University of Oklahoma and worked as faculty, Assistant Program Director, then Associate Program Director in Tulsa before moving to Dallas in 2023. Dr. Milman is passionate about teaching, advising, and mentoring.

  • Miriam Kulkarni, Associate Professor

    St. John’s Riverside Hospital

    Dr Kulkarni is the Program Director at St John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY. She is a graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency. She has been involved in residency education as an APD and PD since 2009. Dr. Kulkarni has been involved in the match process as an APD and PD for the last 15 years.

  • Jonathan Fisher, MD, MPH

    American College of Emergency Physicians

    Jonathan Fisher, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAEMS is the Senior Director for EM Practice and Workforce at the American College of Emergency Physicians. . He is currently a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University and is board-certified by American Board of Emergency Medicine in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital in 2001. He has served in key leadership roles in numerous institutions and national organizations including Academy of Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Council on Graduate Medical Education, Council of Residency Director in Emergency Medicine. National Association of EMS Physicians, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Dr.Fisher has a long track record of innovative work in medical education, public health, and administration. 

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