2001-2002 Medical Student's Guide to Successful Residency
Matching A fantastic small and easy to read guide from Wards
to Rotations, Choosing a specialty, Interviews and the
Match !UCLA Annual pocket guide to the year-long residency
matching process. Covers speciality selections, planning
clinical years, the matching process, selecting programs
for application, interviewing, ranking, match day, and
tips for the international medical graduate.
Continue
to inquire about away electives, plan subinternships.
Ask advisors, residents, friends about specialty selection and residency
programs.
Summer-Fall
2003
All
applicants request residency application materials directly from
hospitals. Applicants can register with ERAS, a program separate
from NRMP.
2004 Student
NRMP Match Calendar
June
2003
Begin
drafting CV. and personal statement.
Begin asking faculty for letters of recommendation.
Continue to seek advice from advisors, residents, friends.
July
2003
Check
the MyERAS
website
Continue working on CV. and personal statement.
Continue asking faculty for letters of recommendation.
Continue to seek advice from advisors, residents,
friends.
August
2003
August
15th. Applicant registration opens.
Inquire about dean's letter appointment with medical school dean's
office.
Continue working on CV. and personal statement.
Continue asking faculty for letters of recommendation.
Continue obtaining residency information
via residency program websites, requesting information directly
from programs.
Continue to seek advice from advisors, residents,
friends.
September
2003
Programs
start receiving applications on September 1, 2002.
Finalize CV. and personal statement.
Begin filling out applications via ERAS.
Continue asking faculty for letters of recommendation.
Continue obtaining residency information
via residency program websites, requesting information directly
from programs.
Continue to seek advice from advisors, residents,
friends.
October
2003
Select
residency programs begin inviting applicants for interviews.
Make final edits to personal statement.
Submit ERAS application if finished. Be aware of application deadlines.
Continue asking faculty for letters of recommendation.
Continue obtaining residency information
via residency program websites, requesting information directly
from programs.
Continue to seek advice from advisors, residents,
friends.
November
2003
Dean's
Letters released to programs on November 1.
Continue interviewing at residency programs.
Submit ERAS application.
Make sure letters of recommendation are
secure.
Check to make sure application materials are complete for each
program through ERAS website.
Send thank you letters for letters of recommendation writers.
December
2003
Applicant
Registration Deadline December 1.
Continue interviewing at residency programs.
Continue to seek advice from advisors, residents,
friends.
January
2004
Residency
program interviews end during January-February
Students may consider "second-look"
visits to programs they are interested in. Beginning January 15th, Applicants
and programs enter their Rank Order Lists Continue
to seek advice from advisors, residents, friends.
February
2004
Students
continue to take "second-look" visits to select programs.
Continue to seek advice from advisors, residents, friends. February 25, 2004. The R3 System closes at 11:59
pm Eastern Standard Time (EST).
NRMP must receive certified applicant and program Rank Order
Lists
and
any other
information
pertinent to the Match by this date and time.
March
2004
On
March 15, 2004, Matched and Unmatched Information on
applicants posted to the Web at 12:00 noon EST. [specific
Match information
not made available]
March 16, 2004, Filled and Unfilled results for individual
programs posted to the Web at 11:30 am EST. Locations of all
unfilled positions are released to applicants at 12:00 noon
EST. Unmatched applicants may begin contacting unfilled programs
at 12:00 noon EST.
Thursday, March 18, 2004.MATCH DAY
Match results for applicants are posted on the NRMP
Web site at 1:00 p.m. EST.
March 19 Hospitals send letters of appointment
to matched applicants who then must sign and return the letters
of appointment.
Celebrate!
*All efforts have been made to assure the accuracy of this calendar. For
official dates, please check the NRMP
Schedule.
