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In response to feedback from members of the transition to residency community, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has developed guidance for residency interviews for the 2022-23 residency selection cycle. NRMP and other organizations in the transition to residency community support the new guidance, which includes five recommendations: Programs should conduct virtual interviews for…

Shining a Light on Match News that Matters This issue of the Illuminator includes: Main Residency Match Results On March 18, 2022, the NRMP celebrated Match Day for the 2022 Main Residency Match. It was among the strongest of Matches, with a record number of U.S. seniors and positions offered. Read below for highlights. Program…

As part of its NRMP Connects series, the NRMP interviewed Natasha Bray, DO, MSEd, Interim Dean of the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation, to learn more about her path to Medicine, her involvement in the ground-breaking partnership between OSU and the Cherokee Nation to support community and elevate URM…

The applications are not tied to rounds and, once an application is submitted, it can be considered by the programs during all rounds. The SOAP Offer Rounds indicate when offers are made, not when applications are reviewed by programs. NRMP is not an application service.

The application process and timing is set by the specific application service or by programs individually. The interview process and timing is set by individual programs.

An applicant who matches to a PGY-1, preliminary or transitional year position only or to an advanced, PGY-2 position only would be considered partially matched. Partially-matched applicants should only apply to programs for which they are eligible during SOAP. SOAP-eligible partially matched applicants can access the List of Unfilled Programs in the NRMP’s R3 system under the…

It is important to provide applicants your NRMP program code to assist them in ranking your program, especially if you have multiple program tracks or types. NRMP provides a search function for applicants to search for the programs they wish to rank. However, institutions may have similar names or multiple tracks in a specialty which…

The R3 system offers institutions and programs in the Main Residency Match the option to link an advanced PGY-2 program with a preliminary PGY-1 program to create a full course of training at the same institution for applicants interested in specialties that begin in the PGY-2 year.  In “joining” an advanced (A) PGY-2 program to a…

In a Joint A/P arrangement, applicants can only rank the joint preliminary PGY-1 program on a supplemental rank order list if that list is attached to the joint advanced PGY-2 program on the primary rank order list. Only applicants who rank the advanced program can rank the joined preliminary program, and only applicants who match to…