Publication Date:
1990-12-14
Description:
The National Resident Matching Program is a centralized clearinghouse through which new medical graduates in the United States obtain their first positions. The history of this market, from the market failures that the centralized system was designed to address, to the present, is discussed, and a hypothesis about the behavior of such markets is presented. New evidence is then presented from a set of similar centralized markets in the United Kingdom. Because some of these latter markets have failed, while others have succeeded, they provide a natural experiment that permits the hypothesis to be tested. The new evidence also suggests directions in which modifications of existing procedures might be considered.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Roth, A E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Dec 14;250(4987):1524-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2274783" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Algorithms
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Economic Competition
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Employment
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Great Britain
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History, 20th Century
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Hospitals
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Information Centers/*history
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Internship and Residency/history/*organization & administration
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*Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Information Systems
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Program Evaluation
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
