“When America's future doctors apply for residency, they enter a closed market controlled by a single accreditation monopoly,” Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis,, said at a hearing Wednesday of the House ...

For Aliya Redd, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Florida (UF) College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, the reality of the match process is sinking in as the March 4 deadline for ...

When the National Resident Matching Program announced earlier this month that, for two years running, the number of U.S. medical student seniors who will train as family medicine residents rose, the ...

Specialties Matching Service (R) reaches all-time high with more than 12,900 fellowship positions filled ...

Nearly all practicing physicians in the U.S. obtained their post-graduate training positions through "the match." Prior to the 1950s, internship and residency matching were done by ad hoc individual ...

Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, still remembers that day 21 years ago. Getting wheeled back into surgery on a stretcher and preparing to go under anesthesia, Ehrenfeld recalls feeling “so nervous” about matching ...