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Operations Supervisor Russette Blake and Senior Compliance Analyst Felicia Moody recently hosted a webinar designed to assist fellowship program staff. Learn about program staff roles and responsibilities, managing your program’s participation in the Match, ranking applicants, and important policy information. Whether your program is new to the NRMP or you are a veteran program director…

Chief of Match Operations Jeanette Calli recently hosted an educational webinar designed to assist program staff with Match Week and the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP). The webinar provides an overview about preparing for Match Week, obtaining your program’s Match results, important policy information, and navigating SOAP in the NRMP’s Registration, Ranking, and Results…

Chief of Match Operations Jeanette Calli and Director of Policy and Compliance Joy Gaabucayan recently hosted an educational webinar designed to assist program staff with ranking in the 2025 Main Residency Match. The webinar provides information on the ranking process, how the matching algorithm works, and the program staff roles and responsibilities involved in ranking…

Program Directors and Institutional Administrators in the Main Residency Match® and the Specialties Matching Service® fellowship Matches now have additional oversight of their program’s Match participation. The Institutional Official (IO) traditionally has been required to activate both the institution and all the programs for Match participation in the NRMP’s Registration, Ranking, and Results® (R3®) system. …

Institutional officials must ensure that none of their programs, regardless of Match participation status, discusses, interviews for, or offers a position to an applicant who has matched to or accepted a concurrent year position in another program or who is ineligible because of a denied waiver or a confirmed violation. Failure to ensure compliance could subject…

New for the 2026 Match! Registration is open for institution and program users in the 2026 Main Residency Match. Medical school users and residency applicants will continue to register for the Match on September 15.   Institution and program users received an email on May 1 when registration opened with instructions on how to register their…

Applicant Characteristics Associated with Program Rank Order Lists – In this session, Sara Balestrieri, PhD, ScM (NRMP) and Christopher Feddock, MD, MBA, MS (NBME) examines how key applicant characteristics — such as applicant type and USMLE performance — shape residency program rankings. Covering multiple specialties, including Family Medicine, OB/GYN, Otolaryngology, Pathology, and Diagnostic Radiology, this…

Program Signaling: Functionality, Directionality, and Outcomes in the Match – Presented by Sheila Pakdaman, PhD, MS (NRMP®), Dana Dunleavy, PhD (AAMC), and Daniel Jurich, PhD (NBME), this session explores prior research on program signals and introduces new analyses on their current impact on ranking and Match outcomes.  Focusing on General Surgery and Otolaryngology, the discussion…