Response to Student and School-level Predictors of Pharmacy Residency Attainment

To the Editor: We thank Elnaz Arabian and Dr. Bryan McCarthy Jr. for their comments in response to our manuscript,1 which help further the discourse about pharmacy residency attainment. In their letter, they noted that our study filled a critical gap in the literature by building a predictive model for pharmacy residency attainment by analyzing pharmacy student data from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Graduating Student Survey and Degrees Conferred Survey. After reading their letter, we realized we were remiss in not mentioning that the dynamics of who is applying for and attaining residency can change as competition rises for residency programs. Based on their comments, we would like to further frame how our study relates to previous literature and expand upon a research agenda for exploring pharmacy residency predictors.