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Next steps depend on whether you are participating in the Main Residency Match or a Fellowship Match.

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…

Applicants and programs are not authorized to release each other from a binding commitment.  As stated in the Match Participation Agreement, once a party has matched, or a position has been offered and accepted during SOAP®, a waiver of the binding commitment may be obtained only from the NRMP.  Moreover, the Agreement also prohibits any program at a…

The Match Participation Agreement states that a match between an applicant and a program creates a binding commitment to accept a position if a match results 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…

NRMP administers the Main Residency Match® for residency programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), but some ACGME-accredited core specialties participate in national matching programs that conclude before the NRMP Main Residency Match. This information is for applicants who register for the Main Residency Match and another “early” national matching program. Applicants who…

For the past eighteen months the National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) has been working closely with other national medical education organizations to examine the current state of the transition to residency. Conversations have focused on mitigating burdens for both applicants and programs in the selection and recruitment process and addressing uncertainty in the future of the…

Details for IT departments to whitelist NRMP emails.

Find out more about match week and the SOAP process.

Find more information about what it means you’re your status in the R3 System says that you are not verified.