Can I participate in both the NRMP’s Main Residency Match® and CaRMS?
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Yes, NRMP has an agreement with CaRMS that permits applicants to participate in both the Canadian and U.S. Matches. Under this agreement, mutual applicants matched in whichever country runs its match first are removed from the other organization’s match.
In the 2025 Main Residency Match, the CaRMS Match results will be released first. NRMP will automatically withdraw any applicants who match through the CaRMS R-1 match. After the Main Residency Match concludes, NRMP sends to CaRMS a list of applicants who obtained positions so that CaRMS can withdraw those applicants from the second iteration.
In years where the NRMP and CaRMS schedules overlap, CaRMS applicants who do NOT match through the NRMP Main Residency Match but have submitted a Rank Order List in the CaRMS R-1 match will be ineligible to participate in SOAP and will not have access to the List of Unfilled Positions either during or after SOAP concludes, regardless of whether they are matched in CaRMS.