The Orthopaedic Surgery Match is highly competitive, with more applicants than residency spots. With the Step 1 Exam moving to a pass/fail result, residency programs and applicants have fewer objective data to determine applicants' relative competitiveness. Through this study, we sought to provide the mean number of accepted publications on PubMed a successfully matched orthopedic surgery applicant has by the time of submission of their application.
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