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ArticleMuscle & nerve2022

The neuromuscular fellowship portal and match.

Zachary N London, Karissa L Gable, Ragav Govindarajan, Amanda C Guidon, Kelly G Gwathmey, Michael K Hehir, Matthew Imperioli, Ruple S Laughlin, Raymond S Price, Sarada Sakamuri and 2 more

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Article in Muscle & nerve, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Zachary N LondonDepartment of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3803-2473
Karissa L GableDepartment of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Ragav GovindarajanHSHS St. Elizabeth Medical Group, O'Fallon, Illinois, USA.
Amanda C GuidonDivision of Neuromuscular Medicine, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0843-2935
Kelly G GwathmeyDepartment of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Michael K HehirDepartment of Neurological Sciences, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Matthew ImperioliDepartment of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
Ruple S LaughlinDepartment of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Raymond S PriceDepartment of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sarada SakamuriDepartment of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
Jacob SokolStaff, American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Michael BaerDepartment of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For many years, Neuromuscular Medicine programs lacked a standardized means of handling fellowship applications and offering positions. Programs interviewed applicants and made offers as early as the first half of Post Graduate Year 3 (PGY3), a suboptimal timeline for applicants who may have had little prior exposure to neuromuscular or electrodiagnostic medicine. In 2021, the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) developed the Neuromuscular Fellowship Portal to standardize a later timeline and establish a process for fellowship applications and offers. In its first year, the Neuromuscular Fellowship Portal used a unique one-way match, in which the portal released serial offers to applicants based on rank order lists submitted by programs. Fifty-two Neuromuscular Medicine programs and seven electromyography (EMG)-focused Clinical Neurophysiology programs participated. Sixty-eight positions were filled, a similar number to previous years. A survey of fellowship directors and applicants following this process showed overwhelming support for the standardized timeline and application portal, but all program directors and most applicants favored moving to a traditional match. To maintain the existing application timeline and minimize costs for all parties, the AANEM Neuromuscular Fellowship Portal will host a two-way match, based on existing commercial match algorithms, in 2022. A match will afford a fair and efficient process for all involved. Both Neuromuscular Medicine and EMG-focused Clinical Neurophysiology programs will be encouraged to participate. The process undertaken by the AANEM can stand as an example for other neurologic subspecialties who are interested in standardizing their application timeline.

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PMCPMC9314681

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