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AMA Update 579: Match Day 2025 results: NRMP match rates by specialty, SOAP match statistics and more

What happens on Match Day? How many residency programs are there in the US? How many medical students matched in 2025? What happens if you don’t match? Jeanette Calli, chief of match operations at the National Resident Matching Program, discusses the latest main residency match results, including Match Day participation rates and trends in the residency match process. Also covering Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) results for residency placements. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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🆕 Take a deep dive on 2025 Match Day results and the NRMP data about this year’s match rates, medical specialty trends, and more: https://ama-assn.co/MatchDay_2025

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🏫 AMA Medical Student Section (MSS): https://ama-assn.co/MSS

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AMA Update 525: Challenges with Matching for international medical graduates and how IMGs help residency programs

The CEO of Intealth, Eric Holmboe, MD, joins us to discuss the Match rate for IMGs and how to improve it, how international medical graduates can help residency programs fill critical care gaps and deliver culturally competent care, and more. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 397: Program signaling tips and strategies for residency applications with Kathleen Kashima, PhD

The most common questions medical students have about preference signaling in residency applications—answered. Kathleen Kashima, PhD, senior associate dean of students, at University of Illinois College of Medicine provides an overview of residency program signaling and how students can best use it to stand out. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🏫 Residency Programs Participating in Program Signaling: https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-residencies-eras/residency-programs-participating-program-signaling

🥼 Specialties Participating in Program Signaling for the 2024 ERAS® Application Season: https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-residencies-eras/myeras-application-and-program-signaling-2023-24#SpecialtiesParticipating

💻 2024 ERAS® Application Season Program Signaling: https://connect.aamc.org/resourcelibraries/2024erasprogramsignaling

🌐 AAMC MyERAS login: https://myeras.aamc.org/myeras-web/

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AMA Update 283: Emergency Medicine Residency: 2023 Match Day data and trends with Holly Caretta-Weyer, MD

Holly Caretta-Weyer, MD, Associate Residency Program Director of the Stanford University Emergency Medicine Residency, recaps 2023 residency Match results in Emergency Medicine (EM). Also discussing previous years’ EM Match results, changes to the specialty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, physician burnout in emergency rooms, and the life changing experience of being on the front lines of patient care. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 276: Class of 2023 Main Residency Match results: data and trends with NRMP’s Donna Lamb, DHSc

This episode opens with a special moment with graduating medical students at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) opening their Match envelopes. To skip, go to 06:00, where we pick up with National Resident Matching Program’s Donna L. Lamb, DHSc. She breaks down the numbers from this year’s residency Match. Discussing Match rates, changes by specialty, SOAP results, and what’s in store for Class of 2024 Match Day. This special Match Day edition also includes interviews with medical students and footage from UIC’s 2023 Mach Day event—recorded live at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 228: Medical student policy, advocacy, policy & leadership: the next generation of medicine with Reilly Bealer

American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger chats about how medical students can influence policy with Reilly Bealer—a medical student at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. Reilly previously served as the AMA’s Government Relations and Advocacy Fellow, and is now chair of the AMA Medical Student Section (MSS).

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AMA Update 182: Finding the best medical residency program for you with Maya Hammoud, MD, MBA

Residency applicants start submitting MyERAS applications to programs on September 7th. Maya Hammoud, MD, an OB/GYN professor and Associate Chair of Education at the University of Michigan Medical School, discusses residency selection and how a new tool can help medical students find a residency program that best fits them. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

Specialties interested in collaborating on a residency program Alignment Check Index (ACI) tool can email gme@ama-assn.org for more information.

To access FREIDA™ Alignment Check Index (ACI) tool, visit: https://freida.ama-assn.org/residency-alignment

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AMA Update 27: 2021 Residency Match: What the pandemic taught us

A discussion with NRMP’s Dr. Donna Lamb and ECFMG’s Dr. William Pinsky about this year’s residency Match and what went well, what we learned and how it was influenced by the pandemic. Visit FREIDA to start your residency research at freida.ama-assn.org

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