When are we shifting strictly to NRMP for match process?
NMS and NRMP...Single match process...when?
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Statement from the NRMP. This is about as much info as you will probably find.
At its May 4, 2015 meeting, the National Resident Matching Program Board of Directors adopted the following statement about whether a single Match will result from the single accreditation system for graduate medical education programs in the U.S. to be conducted under the aegis of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education:
Since its creation in 1952, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) has matched students and graduates of allopathic medical schools (MD physicians) to graduate medical education programs. For decades, a large proportion of graduates of osteopathic medical schools (DO physicians) also have participated in the NRMP Main Residency Match. Under the single accreditation system by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) that provides pathways for American Osteopathic Association (AOA)-approved programs to transition to ACGME accreditation, all ACGME-accredited programs will be open to all applicants, including students and graduates of both allopathic and osteopathic medical schools. No change is necessary in NRMP policies and procedures for qualified MD and DO applicants to participate in the NRMP Match. Osteopathic medical schools may participate in the NRMP Match by following existing procedures. Programs may participate in the NRMP Match if they have initial or continued ACGME accreditation and are open to MD applicants. The NRMP will continue to provide matching services for all ACGME programs and the MD and DO applicants who apply to those programs.
At its May 4, 2015 meeting, the National Resident Matching Program Board of Directors adopted the following statement about whether a single Match will result from the single accreditation system for graduate medical education programs in the U.S. to be conducted under the aegis of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education:
Since its creation in 1952, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) has matched students and graduates of allopathic medical schools (MD physicians) to graduate medical education programs. For decades, a large proportion of graduates of osteopathic medical schools (DO physicians) also have participated in the NRMP Main Residency Match. Under the single accreditation system by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) that provides pathways for American Osteopathic Association (AOA)-approved programs to transition to ACGME accreditation, all ACGME-accredited programs will be open to all applicants, including students and graduates of both allopathic and osteopathic medical schools. No change is necessary in NRMP policies and procedures for qualified MD and DO applicants to participate in the NRMP Match. Osteopathic medical schools may participate in the NRMP Match by following existing procedures. Programs may participate in the NRMP Match if they have initial or continued ACGME accreditation and are open to MD applicants. The NRMP will continue to provide matching services for all ACGME programs and the MD and DO applicants who apply to those programs.
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As programs achieve initial accreditation with the ACGME, they are eligible to move to NRMP. Since the deadline to achieve Initial Accreditation for ACGME is June 2020, I believe the complete transition to NRMP match will be the one starting in Fall of 2019 (the one Class of 2020 will be applying to). As we get closer to 2019-2020, more and more programs will be applying to ACGME, and thus NRMP will become more and more the standard match process.
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Most likely 2018
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...tes-and-fall-convention-omed-summary.1170241/
"There is no formal timeline for the transition between matching services. However, as previously stated, AOA programs that have not applied for ACGME accreditation can not accept residents who would not graduate by July 1, 2020. Therefore, any AOA program accepting residents out of the Class of 2018 will be eligible to be listed in the NRMP. This will likely be the endpoint of the AOA match."
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...tes-and-fall-convention-omed-summary.1170241/
"There is no formal timeline for the transition between matching services. However, as previously stated, AOA programs that have not applied for ACGME accreditation can not accept residents who would not graduate by July 1, 2020. Therefore, any AOA program accepting residents out of the Class of 2018 will be eligible to be listed in the NRMP. This will likely be the endpoint of the AOA match."
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I think it will be 2019. If they are accepting residents form the DO class of 2018 then they could in theory just have received pre-accreditation, which means they would be eligible to accept residents but not to participate in the NRMP match.
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Are programs required to immediately switch over to the NRMP match as soon as they earn initial accreditation? If so, that seems like it could be pretty disruptive to the programs, especially if they earn initial accreditation in the middle of the audition or application season.
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I hoe so! It would be a bummer to have to submit and pay for a second application in the same year for the same program.
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Would this "duel accreditation" continue until 2020 or is this just in the interim of coming into the NRMP match?
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The "duel match" hasnt been setup. Its assumed, but not a given. Until 2020, aoa programs will be duelly accreditted by the aoa and acgme once they get acgme accredidation. Then they can enter both matches, similar to duelly accreditted programs now do.
After 2020, noone knows definitively how the match will work. Its assumed it will be a single match, since all programs will just be acgme residencies.
But the match is not a function of the aoa or the acgme, both the nms and nrmp are separate institutions. Osteopathic schools and "DO friendly" residencies could still bind together and stick to supporting the nms match. Specialty specific matches could even pop up (fields like neuro have a separate match). Or there could just be one match. Who knows. It wouldve been great if this was all worked out prior to the merger to avoid all the confusion and angst regarding these interval years. Unfortunately, it was not.
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I wonder if the osteopathic urology and ophthalmology programs will participate in the AUA Match and SFMatch, respectively? It might be a significant change for those programs as their match day would be about 3 weeks earlier than they have been used to.
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Well obviously their programs would fight to the death until only one is left standing by 2020.
But seriously, dual-accreditation will continue for as long as those programs maintain AOA accreditation. Accreditation usually lasts 5 yrs, so it really depends on the last time they were evaluated. The AOA will only accredit up to 2020, so if accreditation does expire, then they'll have to reapply as always for continued AOA accreditation up to 2020, but more likely if they already received initial ACGME accreditation, they will just apply for osteopathic focus (or not).
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Thanks for the info. The reason I ask is because with more and more programs trying to get ACGME accreditation, this would also mean less exclusively AOA programs until 2019. For those who are aiming for competitive specialties and would like to play it safe, they would benefit being able to apply these program through the AOA matching system until 2020. If programs didn't have duel accreditation, then students would be at risk in matching into a residency they ranked lowly simply because the ones they ranked highly were only in the ACGME match. Good to know there will be duel accreditation for those applying between 2016-2019, but probably doesn't matter much around 2019.
