Insights
The NRMP® is known for promoting a matching process that is fair, efficient, and transparent when connecting students and graduates with the clinical training they need to launch their careers. It also is viewed as a source of new and developing ideas and perspectives for how the transition to residency should evolve and how stakeholders internal and external to medical education can consider new processes. This Insights page shares how the NRMP is leveraging education, research, and community engagement opportunities to encourage and inform community and national discussions about residency and the physician workforce. To learn more about our initiatives or to ask any questions, please contact admin@nrmp.org.
*NEW* In Fall of 2024, the NRMP announced the Voluntary Program Rank Order Lock Pilot initiative in partnership with the Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Vascular Surgery specialties. This pilot will make it possible for the NRMP, and participating programs, to explore the merits and utility of voluntary functionality that would allow programs to “lock” their rank order lists in the NRMP’s Registration, Ranking, and Results® (R3®) system.
To learn more about the Pilot, visit the Voluntary Program Rank Order List Lock Pilot page.
Advocacy
Advocacy highlights the NRMP’s interactions with national policymakers and government agencies to educate about The Match, engage in discussion about challenges related to the UME-GME transition, and identify what and how Match data can inform and support health policy priorities.
Education
Education showcases white papers, interviews, reports, and events that reflect how the NRMP engages with communities to increase understanding of application, ranking, and matching processes and outcomes.
Perspectives
Perspectives reflect the NRMP’s published opinion pieces and open letters that leverage a different lens on the transition to residency.
Research
Research provides access to briefs, published, empirical design and analysis of the NRMP, and other partner data. All reports produced by the NRMP preserve the confidentiality of applicants, medical schools, residency programs, and teaching hospitals.
Viewpoints
Viewpoints showcases the NRMP Annual Report. It also presents NRMP’s position statements and calls for public comment on Match-centric topics that illuminate directions in which The Match, or the transition at large, is moving on process enhancements and innovation.