Changes in Matches into Surgical Residencies and Fellowships Following the ACGME Merger.

Objective: In 2015, a transition was initiated among the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), resulting in a single accrediting body for residencies and fellowships as of 2020. This study aims to elucidate whether this had an impact on osteopathic students' matching into general surgery residencies, integrated surgery residencies, and surgical fellowships.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Using the Results and Data Residency Match data file and the Results and Data: Specialties Matching Service data from the National Resident Matching Program from 2015 to 2024, data was extracted regarding osteopathic and allopathic match rates into general surgery residency and surgical fellowships, respectively.

Nitrosomonas supralitoralis sp. nov., an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium from beach sand in a supralittoral zone.

A betaproteobacterial chemolithotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacterium designated APG5 was isolated from supralittoral sand of the Edmonds City Beach, WA, USA. Growth was observed at 10-35 °C (optimum, 30 °C), pH 5-9 (optimum, pH 8) and ammonia concentrations as high as 100 mM (optimum, 1-30 mM NHCl). The strain grows optimally in a freshwater medium but tolerates up to 400 mM NaCl.