SOAP Violation email

[partusa]

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Got an email from NRMP saying that I violated a regulation.

I was SOAP elegible and I contacted by email a program on Monday before the beginning of the SOAP which was NOT participating in the SOAP.

Anyone in the same boat? I read the regulations point 7.1 and it's not clear.

Help!!

 

[basmoq]

It will likely depend on what you e-mailed them about. The regulation seemed rather clear to me. Did you get a spot through the SOAP? We need more info to be of help. I got my spot through the Scramble last year and the SOAP this year... It's a rather unfortunate position to be in.

 

[partusa]

It will likely depend on what you e-mailed them about. The regulation seemed rather clear to me. Did you get a spot through the SOAP? We need more info to be of help. I got my spot through the Scramble last year and the SOAP this year... It's a rather unfortunate position to be in.

Thanks for your reply. I did not get anything, not even an interview during the SOAP or after the SOAP.
The email was directed to a non-SOAP participating program. That means, how are you going to contact them if they dont use ERAS.
My outcome did not change and other applicants were not compromised by my action, so it shouldn't matter.

 

[splik]

it is a violation to email non-SOAP participating programs until after the SOAP is completed i.e. if you emailed a program before 19th march that is a violation. it is a bit silly but the real question is how did they NRMP even know about this?! someone must have told them

 

[Doppleganger]

It is simly a way for NRMP to monpolize on their postion as a matching company... They are like a recruiting company for medicine and don't wat others forgeting that... by u contating people diectly you are cutting out the middl man and hence their cut of the pofit... its sikening realy...

 

[Samoa]

I was contacted by a non-SOAP-participating program to give me first shot at an unlisted opening. I had to email them back saying that I could not apply for or discuss the position until SOAP was over.

They had filled it by then. So you better believe I'd be pissed off if some other, less-scrupulous SOAP-participating applicant had applied for and gotten it. I don't know if I'd go so far as to report them, but I sure would be tempted to do so.