About the Match

The National Resident Matching Program^® (NRMP^®), also known as The Match^®, is an independent, non-profit organization whose responsibility is to place the nation’s medical school talent into clinical training programs, ensuring a steady pipeline of highly qualified professionals are building the necessary skills to care for patients across the country. The Match is unique among national medical education organizations: it actively engages with young physicians and training programs by ensuring each participant agency and a voice in the recruitment and selection process.

With its proprietary algorithm, itself the subject and study of Nobel- Prize-winning research, the NRMP has built one of the most stable matching markets in the world. It encourages applicants and training programs to honestly identify where and who they want to train; offers unbiased space and ample time for applicants and programs to strategically consider their training options; and maintains advanced, secure technology for the confidential ranking of preferences. Match outcomes are accurate and the process stable because participants control who and how their preferences for training are ranked.