The National Residency Matching Pro...

The National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) Board of Directors newly adopted the policy that requires residency programs participating in the main residency match to provide applicants with contract metes before students accept the positions. This strange rule is effective for participants in the 2005 match. This action by the agency of the NRMP comes 18 month after three physicians filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NRMP six other medical organizations, and 29 teaching hospitals and related institutions. The NRMP is a not-for-profit organization whose one function is to run the computerized matching a whole that links medical students to residency programs. In 2003 more than 21000 human frames were matched to residencies in the "Main Match" and to from one side of to the other 2,000 subspecialty positions. For more information, go on online to the NRMP's Web site at http://www.nrmp.org. The NRMP also has established a Web site to explain and raise the benefits of the match at http://www.savethematch.org.

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