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Guide to Changing Quota & Program Details

Guide to Adding and Maintaining Program Coordinators

Guide to Using the Program Directory

A program coordinator can create, view, and edit rank order lists. A program coordinator cannot certify rank order lists and is prohibited by the NRMP from assuming that responsibility. Use of a program director’s username and password by the program coordinator to access the R3 system is a breach of the Match Participation Agreement and could…

Main Residency Match: Program directors who learn on Monday of Match Week that they did not fill their positions can participate in the Match Week Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program® (SOAP®), provided they notified the NRMP prior to the Quota Change Deadline of the desire to participate in SOAP. Fellowship Matches: Specialties Matching Service® program directors who…

Only programs that have achieved ACGME Osteopathic Recognition can create an osteopathic-focused track in the NRMP’s Registration, Ranking, and Results® (R3®) system. Programs that are eligible to create an osteopathic-focused track can place some or all of their positions in that track.

The Match Participation Agreement states that a match between an applicant and a program creates a binding commitment to offer and accept a position and to start training in good faith (i.e., with the intent to complete the program) on the date specified in the appointment contract.  For the Main Residency Match®, the same binding…

The Registration, Ranking, and Results® (R3®) system includes an Applicant Match History feature that indicates whether an applicant has a binding commitment to another Match-participating program and whether the applicant has been denied a waiver or has a confirmed violation of the Match Participation Agreement.  The Applicant Match History must be used by program directors and…

There are five different position types in the Main Residency Match: Categorical, "C"; Primary, "M"; Preliminary, "P"; Advanced, "A"; and Reserved, "R".