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The NRMP matches applicants with available residency positions. You are required to register with NRMP in order to participate in the 2010 Match.
Additionally, you must meet NRMP’s examination requirements, and your passing examination results must be available in time to participate. If you have not yet taken and passed USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS), please see the Step 2 CS Schedule for Reporting Results. You should also read this important announcement about registering for Step 2 CS. You are not required to have satisfied the medical education credential requirements for ECFMG Certification in order to participate in the Match.

If you are not matched to a position through the Match, you can participate in the NRMP post-Match Scramble.

For information on Match registration and requirements, visit the NRMP website.

NRMP Post-Match Scramble

This general information about the post-Match Scramble may answer many of your questions. In order to participate in the Scramble, you must be registered with:

• ERAS Support Services at ECFMG
• The Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) administered by AAMC
• National Resident Matching Program (NRMP, or “the Match”)

All applicants who did not match with a residency program may participate in the post-Match Scramble. If you have any outstanding fees with AAMC ERAS or with ECFMG, you must make the necessary payment(s) to clear these outstanding balances; otherwise, you will be prohibited from participating in the Scramble.

If you wish to participate in the Scramble only, you must obtain an ERAS Token; register at MyERAS; register with NRMP; and apply to at least one program at least two weeks prior to the Scramble.

The Scramble starts on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time in the United States, when the list of programs with unfilled positions is posted on the NRMP website, and ends on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Time in the United States. Once the list has been posted, you may apply to any program with an unfilled position. You will not have access to the list of unfilled programs if you did not register with the Match; refer to the NRMP website for its policies. The Match Agreement prohibits applicants from sharing NRMP’s List of Unfilled Programs with individuals who did not register with the Match.

During the Scramble, you may apply to a maximum of 30 new programs and up to 15 programs to which you applied during the regular ERAS season. There is no charge for applying to programs during the Scramble.

If you reapply to programs, you cannot retransmit or make any changes to your application; if you need to make changes to document assignments, you must do so before reapplying.

Important Information

Regardless of whether you have registered with NRMP, you should not contact any programs before noon on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. It is important that you understand the terms and conditions of the Match Agreement; therefore, please read the agreement found on the NRMP website. Programs will take note of all applicants who violate this Match rule and may report them to NRMP. Programs as well as applicants are bound by the Match Agreement.

We also urge you not to engage services that, for a fee, claim to help you by flooding programs with applications, either by e-mail or fax. Instead of being helpful, in most cases they are detrimental to your application. Therefore, be sure to register with NRMP by the late registration/rank order list certification deadline. After having consulted the list of unfilled programs on Tuesday of Match Week, go to MyERAS and apply to some of those programs. Be sure to assign your LoRs and USMLE transcript to the programs, so that we can transmit them accordingly.

It is important to know that programs may participate in ERAS but not in the Match. The reverse holds true; programs may participate in the Match but not in ERAS. You will need to research this information on your own.