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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The match process is where you get to find out if any hospital is going to take you in residency in a specific discipline, correct?

Basically like sorority rush? Is this the thing that you have to be physically present for at a specific city on a specific day?

For students that don't get matched, what do they do?

The medical system seems very weird in that way.[/quote]

I am not familiar with sorority rush.  For residency match, students apply to residency programs.  If the program is interested, the program invites the student for an interview.  After interviews are complete students rank their preferred program, and programs rank their preferred students.  (Note: for interviews students usually have to cover travel/hotels and it can be an expensive process.)

Then students and programs are matched.  Here's a video explaining it: http://www.nrmp.org/matching-algorithm/

Then on match day (mid March), 4th year medical students gather at their med school and are handed an envelope telling them where they've matched, or if they did not match.  If they did not match, they can "scramble" for open/unfilled spots.

Spots are limited and some specialties are very competitive.[/quote]

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