2025 Main Residency Match® Results Revealed Next Week as the NRMP® Prepares for Highly Anticipated Match Week

WASHINGTON, March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) is set to kick off Match Week 2025, a pivotal occasion for the medical education community. On Monday, March 17, residency applicants from across the nation and around the world learn if they have matched to a clinical training program. For applicants who do not match, the NRMP's Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program® (SOAP®) provides an opportunity to obtain an unfilled position before "Match Day", Friday, March 21. Applicants celebrate "Match Day" when they learn of the residency programs in which they will train.

"Given its scale and scope, the NRMP's Matching Program is a critical bellwether of the state of the physician workforce," says NRMP President and CEO Donna L. Lamb, DHSc, MBA, BSN. "This year's Match looks to once again set records in the number of applicants and residency positions available, reflecting the continued growth and evolution of graduate medical education."

Match Cycle. For applicants, the Main Residency Match cycle begins in September during the final year of medical school. Applicants apply to residency programs of their choice, and throughout the fall and early winter, applicants interview with programs. Between early February and early March, applicants and program directors come to the NRMP to submit confidential rank order lists that capture their true preferences for training. The NRMP uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to process those lists and place applicants into training programs. Research using the NRMP algorithm was a basis for awarding The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2012.

For the first time, the 2025 Main Residency Match includes multiple application services for applicants to secure residency positions. The NRMP has worked closely with application service providers to promote a seamless experience for applicants. As the landscape of the transition to residency evolves, the NRMP remains committed to ensuring a fair and transparent matching process for all who wish to participate.

Match Week (March 17 – 21, 2025). Match Week begins at 10:00 a.m. ET on Monday, March 17, when residency applicants learn if, but not where, they have matched to a residency training program. Unmatched or partially matched applicants who are eligible may participate in the SOAP, conducted Monday through Thursday of Match Week.

SOAP provides a uniform system for programs to offer unfilled positions to applicants through a series of offer rounds, thus maximizing the number of applicants obtaining a position before Match Day. The NRMP is proud to facilitate SOAP as it helps ensure the highest possible number of positions are filled and bolsters the placement of young physicians into the training experiences that will equip them with skills needed to join a robust physician workforce.

Friday, March 21 - Match Day - is recognized with ceremonies and festivities that align with the NRMP's release of Match results at 12:00 p.m. ET. In-person and virtual events hosted by medical schools allow parents, friends, and communities to commemorate this rite of passage for their loved ones.

Match Data and Publications. Also on Friday, March 21 at 12:00 p.m. ET, the NRMP will publish a Match Day press release, infographic highlighting Match results, and Advance Data Tables showcasing key Match outcomes data.  This information will be found on the NRMP website, www.nrmp.org, under the Match Data tab. Additional data, including SOAP outcomes, will be published in the Results and Data: 2025 Main Residency Match report later this Spring.

For more information about Match Week and the Main Residency Match, visit www.nrmp.org. To view reports from previous Main Residency Matches, visit Match Data.

About NRMP
The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) is a private, non-profit organization established in 1952 to oversee The Match®. The Match was established at the request of medical students to provide an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors. In addition to the annual Main Residency Match® for more than 50,000 registrants, the NRMP also conducts Fellowship Matches for more than 75 subspecialties through its Specialties Matching Service® (SMS®).

SOURCE National Resident Matching Program