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| Match Day 2013 - TUSM Class of 2013 |
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| Start Date: | 3/15/2013 | Start Time: | 11:30 AM |
| End Date: | 3/15/2013 | End Time: | 1:00 PM |
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Event Description
Access to graduate medical training programs such as residencies is a competitive process known as "the Match." Senior medical students usually begin the application process at the beginning of their (usually) fourth and final year in medical school. 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, abbreviated NRMP) 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. Aggregate program rankings can be found here, and are tabulated in real time based on applicants' anonymously submitted rank lists.
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. At noon 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. |
Location Information:
Health Sciences Center - Medical Education and Research Building
Room: Maurice Stone, M.D. Commons
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Open to:
StudentsFaculty/staffAlumni |
Temple sponsor organization:
Temple University School of Medicine |
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