National Resident Matching Program
Created in 1952 with the purpose of ensuring a "fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency programs with the preferences of residency program directors" while "at the same time causing record levels of anxiety and high enough troponin levels to warrant an admission for chest pain rule-out, the National Resident Matching Program (also known as the NRMP or The Match) takes place at each of the 155 medical schools in the United States on the third Friday of March every year ("Match Day") and marks the transition from optimistic medical students to jaded residents.[1] The Match is best described as medical Tinder with contractual obligations and without sexually-transmitted infections (STIs).[2]
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- ↑ Optimistic, Bright-Eyed Med Students Eager to Transform into Jaded, Burned-Out Physicians
- ↑ It’s a Match! Tinder to Replace NRMP Match in Residency Programs
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