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Robert Phillips, MD

JAMA. 2000;283:2997.

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For nearly half a century, the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) has operated as an impartial and confidential venue for matching applicants' and residency programs' preferences for each other. In the past few years, the NRMP has instituted several changes to improve the residency match process for applicants and residency programs.

The NRMP is sponsored by 5 organizations: the American Medical Association, the American Board of Medical Specialties, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Hospital Association, and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies. Its board of directors also includes student representatives from 4 different organizations. Although the NRMP is not the only organization to conduct a match, it is the largest. In the 2000 Match, the NRMP served 3769 residency programs, offered 22,722 positions, and processed 33,528 applicants.

The NRMP has a single cardinal rule for both programs and applicants: neither must ask the other . . . [Full Text of this Article]

NRMP President, 1999-2000
University of Missouri
Columbia

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