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In order to participate in SOAP, program directors must set their SOAP participation status to “YES” on the SOAP Participation tab accessible through their Program Details page in the R3 system. Program directors can begin setting their SOAP participation indicator when the Main Residency Match opens for registration. The SOAP participation indicator MUST be set…

No. Until SOAP® concludes, SOAP policy requires SOAP-participating programs to offer unfilled positions only through the Registration, Ranking, and Results® (R3®) system and only to SOAP-eligible applicants. Unfilled positions in non-SOAP-participating programs cannot be offered at all until SOAP concludes.

Dear Residency Program Directors and Coordinators, The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) is pleased to welcome you to the 2026 Main Residency Match®! Registration for institutions and programs opens at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, May 1. The NRMP’s decision to modify the Match registration timeline for institutions and programs allows early updates to the public Program…

Chief of Match Operations Jeanette Calli and Director of Policy and Compliance Joy Gaabucayan recently hosted an educational webinar designed to assist program staff with ranking in the 2025 Main Residency Match. The webinar provides information on the ranking process, how the matching algorithm works, and the program staff roles and responsibilities involved in ranking…

The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) has posted the Match Participation Agreements (“Agreements”) for the 2024 Main Residency Match. Although participants in an NRMP Match are responsible for reading the entire Agreement, we wish to highlight some new and updated policies to support Match participants as they prepare for the upcoming transition cycle. View slides…

NRMP policy does not prohibit programs from utilizing more than one application service or process. NRMP will require programs to notify applicants, at the beginning of the application and recruitment season, which application service or process they intend to use for both Main Residency Match and SOAP.

The NRMP is aware of the recent announcement made by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) regarding a new application service for OB/GYN applicants and programs beginning with the 2024-2025 residency application cycle. This announcement joins the ongoing efforts of the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS) to utilize their own application…

The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) celebrates the landmark milestone that is “Match Day” for the 2023 Main Residency Match with residency applicants, training programs, medical schools, and the medical education community. Match Day is the important transition in an aspiring physician’s journey from undergraduate to graduate medical education. In the largest Match in NRMP’s…

The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) is excited to celebrate Match Week for the 2023 Main Residency Match with residency applicants, institutions, programs, medical schools, and the medical education community. This momentous occasion that is “Match Day” signals the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education for applicants and is commemorated simultaneously by Match participants…