“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Match Day 2025 has come and gone with the largest-ever total of applicants and positions as well as upticks in primary care and emergency medicine. The 73-year-old National Resident Matching Program’s ...

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 ...