It sounds like something out of Harry Potter , or maybe The Matrix : You open an envelope, and suddenly everything in your life changes. But for tens of thousands of medical students who are about to graduate, Match Day is a career-defining reality. Here are eight things to know about this complex method of sending new doctors into the world:. Before anyone will let you treat patients on your own, however, you have to go for more training to become the specific kind of doctor you want to be.
The first year of it is called your intern year, or internship. The first few years of medical school involve learning the basics of the body and things that can go wrong with it, and rotating into short stints working alongside senior doctors and healthcare teams in the fields of primary and specialty care.
You start sending applications to hospitals that offer training in that specialty, and some of them offer you a chance to come interview with them. Meanwhile, the people you interviewed with are entering their top picks into the same system. They list those students in order, too — from their top choices on down.
The nonprofit National Resident Matching Program combines all the ranked lists of about 34, soon-to-graduate medical students and recent grads , and all the directors of the programs that have about 30, residency spots open in any given year. This makes the matching process even more complicated. But the system tries to accommodate them. Once the dust has settled on the matching process, medical schools get to download top-secret lists of which students matched to which residency program.
Marketplace helps you understand it all, will fact-based, approachable, and unbiased reporting. Generous support from listeners and readers is what powers our nonprofit news—and your donation today will help provide this essential service. Skip to content. Erika Beras Apr 26, Heard on:. Listen Now. Share Now on:. Despite the country's growing need for physicians, many would-be doctors are having difficulty matching into residency programs.
Doctors are leaving medicine because of the pandemic. Wanted: more black and Latino doctors. Lack of nurse educators is likely contributing to the nurse workforce shortage. This message will be displayed for any applicant who did not match to any program. Applicants who receive this message and who are deemed eligible to enter GME on July 1 in the year of the Main Residency Match will have access to the List of Unfilled Programs and will be eligible to participate in SOAP for any category of unfilled positions.
This message will be displayed for any applicant who certified a rank order list with no programs. Visit the ERAS website for information about the application process. You must complete the registration process, electronically sign the Match Participation Agreement, and pay Match fees in order to participate in the Main Residency Match.
Interviews typically begin in October and continue through January. NRMP policy requires applicants to provide complete, timely, and accurate information to programs. Eastern Time. You must have a certified rank order list on file in the R3 system for it to be used when the matching algorithm is processed. You also must register for or withdraw from the Main Residency Match by p.
Between the Rank Order List Deadline and Match Week, the NRMP confirms the integrity and completeness of Match data, processes the matching algorithm, verifies Match results, and creates more than 42, individual reports for Match participants. Now that your rank order list is certified, consider how to prepare for Match Day. Match Week begins on Monday, March 13, , when applicants learn whether they matched to a program. Match Day is Friday, March 17, The NRMP is not an application service or a job placement service.
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