The Match process for medical residency applications
Escrito Por el Dr.David Ramirez, Instructor Academia USMLE.Del AHPSI…
El Dr.Ramirez, es egresado del Intec, Instituto tecnologico, Magnan Cum Laude.
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Access to graduate medical training programs such as residencies is a competitive process known as «the Match.» After they apply to programs, programs review applications and invite selected candidates for interviews held between October and February. After the interview period is over, students submit a «rank-order list» to a centralized matching service (currently the National Resident Matching Program, abbreviatedNRMP) by February. Similarly, residency programs submit a list of their preferred applicants in rank order to this same service. The process is blinded, so neither applicant nor program will see each other’s list.
The two parties’ lists are combined by an NRMP computer, which creates stable (a proxy for optimal) matches of residents to programs using an algorithm. On the third Friday of March each year («Match Day») these results are announced in Match Day ceremonies at the nation’s 155 U.S. medical schools. By entering the Match system, applicants are contractually obligated to go to the residency program at the institution to which they were matched. The same applies to the programs; they are obligated to take the applicants who matched into them.
On the Monday prior to Match Day, candidates find out from the NRMP if (but not where) they matched. If they have matched, they must wait until the Match Day (later in the week) to find out where. If they have not secured a position through the Match, the locations of remaining unfilled residency positions are released to unmatched applicants the following day. These applicants are given the opportunity to contact the programs about the open positions. This is what is known as «The scramble.» This frantic, loosely structured system forces to choose programs not on their original Match list.
Applications and Match program
- Application: ERAS. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) developed the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS®) to allow medical school students and graduates to apply electronically for residency positions in accredited U.S. programs of graduate medical education.Students and graduates of U.S. medical schools/programs are assisted in the ERAS process by the Dean’s office at their medical schools. Since ERAS was established in 1996, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates(ECFMG) has served as the designated Dean’s office for students and graduates of international medical schools.International medical students/graduates who apply to programs that participate in ERAS begin the application process by requesting an ERAS Token, a unique identification number, from ECFMG. The Token allows applicants to access AAMC’s MyERASwebsite, where they can complete their residency applications, select the programs to which they will apply, and assign supporting documents to these programs.As the designated Dean’s office, ECFMG receives supporting documents for the ERAS application, such as Medical Student Performance Evaluations, medical school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and photographs from applicants, and their medical schools and letter writers. ECFMG then transmits these documents to the ERAS PostOffice. ECFMG also transmits to the ERAS PostOffice reports of an applicant’s ECFMG certification status and, if requested by the applicant, USMLE transcripts. Once supporting documents have been received at the ERAS PostOffice, they can be downloaded by the programs to which the applicant has applied.
- Match program: NRMP. The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) is a non-profit organization founded in 1952 by medical students seeking to standardize the residency selection process and establish a uniform date of appointment to positions in graduate medical education (GME) training programs. It is governed by a Board of Directors that includes representatives from national medical and medical education organizations as well as medical students, resident physicians, and GME program directors. The NRMP manages the Main Residency Match® and the Specialties Matching Service®, which includes Matches for more than 40 fellowship subspecialties. The process begins with an attempt to match an applicant to the program most preferred on that applicant’s rank order list (ROL). If the applicant cannot be matched to that first choice program, an attempt is made to place the applicant into the second choice program, and so on, until all the applicant’s choices on the ROL have been exhausted.
National Residency Matching Program – NRMP
All students register
• Rank Order List – due February, 2014
• Match Day – March 14, 2014
Types of NRMP Positions
• Categorical (C) – programs that begin in the PGY-1 year and provide the training required for board certification in medical specialties
• Advanced (A) – programs that begin in the PGY-2 year after a year of prerequisite training
• Preliminary (P) – one-year program that begin in the PGY-1 year and provide prerequisite training for advanced programs
• Physician (R) – programs reserved for physicians who have had prior graduate medical education (not available to senior U.S. medical students).
Application Deadlines Regular Match:
- September – submit all the parts of the application you control.
- The more competitive the specialty, the earlier you should submit
- Program Directors can begin to review applications September 15th
How Many Applications?
- Depends on your competitiveness and the competitiveness of the programs to which you are applying.
- Not a one-size-fits-all process.
The ERAS 2014 fees.
You must obtain a Token in order to register at MyERAS and start your residency application. The Token is a 14-digit, alpha-numeric code that you request via ECFMG’s OASIS. There is a $100 non-refundable fee for this service.
· Under the Same Specialty
Programs Up to 10 – $92 Programs 11-20 – $9 each Programs 21-30 – $15 each Programs 31 or more – $26 each
Example 1
40 Surgery programs [$92 + ($9 x 10) + ($15 x 10) + ($26 x 10) ] = $592
Example 2
10 Psychiatry programs [$92] + 20 Internal Medicine programs [$92 + ($9 x 10)] = $274
- Registration opens July 1st
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