Table 1.

Overall core medical training / internal medicine training applications per round/year and competition ratios

Year	Round 1	Round 2	Unique	Unique ±, %	Competition ratio^a
2013	2,748	664	3,118	n/a	2.00
2014	2,732	666	3,180	+2	2.06
2015	2,631	600	2,998	−6	1.86
2016	2,516	596	2,871	−4	1.68
2017	2,337	732	2,757	−4	1.61
2018	2,455	720	2,958	+7	1.71
2019	2,225	844	2,884	−3	1.82

↵^a= The competition ratio shows the number of unique applicants / final number of vacancies across both rounds; n/a = not applicable.