On March 17, 2011, senior medical students and residency training program directors across the United States and Canada will find out this year’s Match Day results.
The National Residency Matching Program, or Match Day, is the annual event in which future doctors simultaneously learn where they will be doing their residency training.
Locally, the University of South Alabama’s Match Day will be held at 11 a.m. CST, on March 17, 2011, at the USA Mitchell Center.
The Match works like this. After interviewing with several different residency programs - both near and far - students provide a ranking of their top-choice programs in order of preference. The training programs, in turn, rank the students who interviewed.
The NRMP matches applicants’ preferences for residency positions with program directors’ preferences for applicants. Each year, thousands of medical school seniors compete for approximately 24,000 residency positions across the United States.
