U.S. Seniors

A U.S. senior is a fourth-year medical student in an LCME-accredited U.S. allopathic school of medicine. A student with a graduation date after July 1 in the year before The Match is considered a U.S. senior. U.S. seniors are sponsored by their medical schools in the NRMP Main Residency Match. Information about the results of The Match is sent to the U.S. senior's school of medicine.

A sponsored applicant who has been withdrawn from the Matching Program because he/she will be ineligible to enter graduate medical education on July 1 in the year of The Match may accept a position outside the Matching Program provided training will begin between July 1 and February 1 in the year immediately following The Match; however, if the student elects to participate in The Match, he/she will be a sponsored applicant.

Updated 01/26/2012