2023 Main Residency Match Programs & Institutions Calendar
View important dates below, color-coded to show where you are in the Match cycle. Add dates to your personal calendar to keep track of Match deadlines throughout the process.
Process Status
- Registration
- Ranking
- Match Week
Registration Opens
Institution and program users can register their individual user account, sign the Match Participation Agreement, and review program details in the R3 system.
Program directors can begin setting their SOAP participation indicator once their program has been activated.
- Login and Register Help
- Activating Institutions and Programs
- Adding & Maintaining Program Directors
- Adding and Maintaining Program Coordinators
- Adding a Program for Institutional Officials
- Adding a Program for Program Directors
- How do I register my program for the Match?
- Does the program director (PD) have to register for the Match each year?
- Whitelisting NRMP Emails
- When should programs provide institutional policies, program policies, and eligibility requirements to applicants?
Quota Change Deadline
Deadline to increase or decrease the number of positions your program desires to fill through the Match.
Deadline to enter your program’s SOAP participation status.
Deadline to withdraw your program from the Match.
Support Guide: Changing Quota & Program Details
- Changing Quota & Program Details
- Setting SOAP Participation Status
- What is a quota?
- How do I set my SOAP participation status?
- What changes to my program have to be approved by the insitutional official?
- Must institutional officials approve all quota changes, additions, and withdrawals in the Registration, Ranking, and Results (R3) system?
- Can we change our quota after the Quota Change Deadline?
- My program is not participating in the Match this year. What do I need to do?
- Can programs have a quota of zero?
- Why would a program want to have a reversion?
Ranking Opens
Login to R3 to build and edit your Rank Order List.
Support Guide: Enter and Certify a Rank Order List for Programs
Rank Order List Certification Deadline
Deadline to rank applicants and certify your program’s rank order list.
Deadline for reversions to be entered and approved.
Deadline for the institutional official to all approve program changes.
- Enter and Certify a Rank Order List for Programs
- Can I make changes to my rank order list (ROL) after I certify it?
- Can a program coordinator enter and certify the rank order list for a program?
- Reversions
- Why would a program want to have a reversion?
- What changes to my program have to be approved by the insitutional official?
Match Week Begins
Applicant match status and program fill status available (by email and R3 system).
Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program Begins
11:00 am ET: SOAP applicants can start preparing applications in the AAMC ERAS® system.
Applicants and their representatives cannot communicate with a program until contacted by that program.
Soap Round 1
8:00 am ET: Confidential Advance Data Tables available.
8:55 am ET: Deadline to certify program preference list for Round 1 offers.
9:00 am ET: Applicants receive Round 1 offers by logging in to R3 system.
11:00 am ET: Applicant deadline to accept/reject Round 1 offers.
Soap Round 2
Deadline to certify program preference list for Round 2 offers.
12:00 pm ET: Applicants receive Round 2 offers.
2:00 pm ET: Applicant deadline to accept/reject Round 2 offers.
2:00 pm ET : Program Confidential Roster of Matched Applicants report available (by email and R3 system)
Soap Round 3
Deadline to certify program preference list for Round 3 offers.
3:00 pm ET: Applicants receive Round 3 offers.
5:00 pm ET: Applicant deadline to accept/reject Round 3 offers.
Soap Round 4
Deadline to certify program preference list for Round 4 offers.
6:00 pm ET: Applicants receive Round 4 offers.
8:00 pm ET: Applicant deadline to accept/reject Round 4 offers.
8:30 pm ET: Programs update their number of remaining unfilled positions on the List of Unfilled Programs.
9:00 pm ET: SOAP ends with posting of final List of Unfilled Programs in the R3 system.
Match Day Results Release
Program Match Results by Ranked Applicant and SOAP Programs Preferred Applicants reports available.
Advance Data Tables available.