Hello, everyone. My name is Ali Dattario. I am a PGY-1 General Surgery resident for University of Minnesota. Here to present my poster, Osteopathic Medical Doctors into Plastic Surgery Pathways and Epigraphics. I wanted to understand how to go from historically how to go from a recent osteopathic medical graduate into becoming a plastic surgeon. I was able to utilize publicly available data and websites and put this presentation together. As for methods, this is a retrospective data analysis of publicly available databases, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American College of Osteopathic Surgeons on proximity, and any websites I can use to find information about the plastic surgeons. I did this right around graduation from medical school in May 2024 to before the start of residency in June of 2024. So I collected which medical school they went to and what region that belonged and where they're currently practicing as listed in their address location. I tried to find out how many took a prelim positions, how many started off as a general surgery resident, how many started off as ENT slash facial and reconstruction residents and other. Also, I tried to find the specific plastic surgery fellowship that they had taken, how many took advantage of the independent pathway versus integrated pathway, and then their gender distribution. As for results, I was able to find 305 plastic surgeons. I was able to eliminate individuals with missing data, were confirmed to be cosmetic surgeons, a suspended license, and had passed. I was left with 220 DO plastic surgeons that are in a current attendingship and 12 trainees. As for medical school, the majority of them train in the Middle Atlantic, 34%, which are states of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. They also tended to stay in the region that they had gone to medical school to. Correlation value of 0.371 and the majority of them practicing in the Middle Atlantic region. The last diagram here is the pathway in which DO graduates eventually go on to become plastic surgeons. 34% of them take a surgical prelim position before officially matching into residency, with the majority of them into general surgery, followed by other ENT or facial reconstruction. A smaller subset, 8.2% of recent DO graduates were able to match into PGY-1 integrated plastic surgery residency. An even smaller subset were able to go from general surgery and into plastic surgery residency. As for fellowship, I was able to confirm a specific type of scholarship, fellowship for 47 individuals before becoming a plastic surgeon. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons had about 5,000 members. I found that 32 of them were DO, which is a very small percentage, 0.34% of them. The American College of Osteopathic Surgeons had 140 DO members. That is what the current pool of workforce for DO plastic surgeons are out there. As for future, in terms of trainees, the NRMP matched from the latest, 2024 to 2018. A majority of them, a majority of PGY-1 plastic surgery residents came from the MB world. And then international medical graduate made a smaller proportion, and then an even smaller proportion would be DOs. And there were actually years, 2023, 2022, and 2020, where no DOs matched into a PGY-1 integrated plastic surgery residency. As for gender distribution, I found 28% of DO plastic surgeons were female, 72% were male. In comparison, the American Board of Plastic Surgeon, I'm sorry, the American Board of Plastic Surgery, ABPS, which has 7,728 active members, has 18.3 females and 81.7 male. Conclusion, I found a very small subset of DOs that are also plastic surgeons, 220 attendings and 12 residents or trainees. A majority of them study in the Middle Atlantic region, and they tend to stay in the Middle Atlantic region to practice plastic surgery. Majority of them went through the independent pathway through general surgery, 91.3%, as opposed to integrated pathway of 8.2. And there's even a smaller subset that started off as a general surgery resident and then matched later into integrated plastic surgery residency. As for NRMP data from 2018 to 2024, there were 8 PGY-1 DOs that matched into integrated plastic surgery programs, as opposed to international medical graduate had 33. Those are non-US citizen, US citizen international medical graduate. And the gender distribution is a little different for DOs as opposed to the American Board of Plastic Surgery dataset.

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Middle Atlantic region