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NEW! Research Brief: The National Resident Matching Program 2024 Program Director Survey: Assessing Program Director Holistic Review Perceptions and Practices The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) is pleased to announce the release of a new research brief exploring the role of holistic review in residency selection and how it shapes program director perceptions and decision-making.…

NEW! Research Brief: The National Resident Matching Program 2024 Program Directory Survey: Analysis of New Items Relating to Program Signaling The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) announced a new research brief exploring the impact of program signaling on program director residency selection behaviors. This brief examines a set of new, qualitative (open-ended) items that were…

NRMP Chief Operating Officer Laurie Curtin, PhD, and Senior Manager of Policy and Compliance David Dojcsak-Sparks, MBA, recently hosted a webinar designed to help program staff learn and understand important Match policy for the Specialties Matching Service (SMS) matches. This presentation covers new policies in the 2024 SMS Match Participation Agreements, important refreshers on existing…

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…

Contact your GME office or institutional official as soon as possible to let them know to mark the program as “Not Participating” in the R3 system. If the program already has been marked as “Active” in the Match by the institutional official, then the program must be withdrawn from the Match prior to the Quota…

The NRMP support staff will assist you with adding your new program or institution to the Match. All programs new to the Match are asked to complete the New Program Form. The information provided on the Form will allow NRMP to create a record in the R3 system and add your program to the appropriate…

No, programs cannot have a quota of zero. Programs that elect not to participate in a Match are expected to withdraw from the Match.

Institutional officials are responsible for approving changes in the R3 system for each of the institution’s Match-participating programs. Program changes requiring approval include: Changing the quota, or number of positions to be filled Entering or changing reversions to donate unfilled positions to another program or program track Withdrawing or reinstating a program Selecting or changing…

Upon Match opening, the IO must activate the institution or mark it as not participating in the Match. Once the institution is active, each program track also must be activated. Activation may be done by the institutional official (IO), but they also have the option to direct the program director or institutional administrator to activate…