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Session 52 This week, we're diving into the match data and cover Pathology. Interestingly, Pathology is a small field that seems to be losing interest among graduating U.S. seniors according to the data. I'm digging into the results of the NRMP Residency Match Data 2017. As you're going through the process, you can understand what this data is telling you and what you should know to help you better plot a path. [02:40] General Overview Table 1 shows the match summary. Let me clarify first that the U.S. Seniors for the NRMP match data means U.S. students in an allopathic/MD program who are still in school. So a student could have graduated from an allopathic program and now applying to residency. Maybe they didn't get in the first time or took a gap year for some reason. Caribbean students and international medical grads, foreign and U.S. citizen international medical grads are not counted as U.S. Seniors. DO students are not counted as U.S. Seniors. Back to the data, there are 159 programs in Pathology