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Record W2464368055

Pulse: Not quite a perfect match

2003· article· en· W2464368055 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Shelley Martin

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Medical Association Journal · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGlobal Health Workforce Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQueen (butterfly)Matching (statistics)MedicinePosition (finance)Medical schoolFamily medicineMedical educationPathology
DOInot available

Abstract

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In 2002, 95.6% of medical students registered with the Canadian Resident Matching Service were assigned to a program during the match's first round. Among successful applicants, 62% were matched to the program they had ranked first, and 90% were matched to their first-ranked discipline. Students from McMaster and Memorial universities were most successful in the latter category (96% and 95% respectively), followed by those from the University of Western Ontario (93%), the University of Ottawa (92%) and the University of Calgary and Queen's University (91%). About two-thirds of Memorial and McGill graduates were matched to positions at those same schools. Elsewhere, many more students packed their suitcases: 21% moved to a residency position within the same province, while 36.4% left for a position in another province. Among all applicants, women were slightly more successful than men at being matched to their first choice of discipline (86.7% vs. 82.7%). More than one-third (34.4%) of women were matched to family medicine positions, while less than one-fifth of men (18.2%) will be taking that route into practice. Family medicine accounted for 38.8% of the 1260 available positions, but 109 of them remained unfilled after the first round; 62 were subsequently filled during the second iteration. Eighty-three residency positions were filled by international medical graduates, who could enter only the second iteration. Overall, 1 in 6 international applicants (16.7%) was matched successfully, with 47 family medicine positions being filled by these applicants. — Shelley Martin, Senior Analyst, CMA Research, Policy and Planning Directorate

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.047
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.105
Threshold uncertainty score0.352

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.047
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0120.005
Scholarly communication0.0090.007
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0070.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1050.036

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.354 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

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