Make a successful leap from medical school to residency with tips, tricks and tools from the AMA.

The Match journey can be full of unexpected twists and turns.

From researching programs to interviewing, we have your back as you approach the final countdown to Match Week and beyond.

Videos to help you prepare

• Road to residency made simple is an overview of the four steps to follow on your Match journey.
• Road to residency ranking addition allows you to rank and compare residency programs.
• Road to residency: countdown to Match Day goes over the list of decisions you need to be prepared to make, quickly.

Review tips and advice

• Manage your residency budget with the new FREIDA™ Residency Calculator.
• Residency match: these are the 7 most competitive medical specialties.
• Which factors do applicants weigh most when picking residency programs?
• Let's break down the numbers behind the Match process.
• Match ranking advice: Trust your gut.
• Ask these questions before finalizing your match rank-order list. 
• IMGS: These 4 tips can help you succeed with your match.

Review options/alternate paths if you don't match

Make the most of the coming year and improve the odds of matching the next time around. 

Review tips and advice

• No match for you? SOAP offers last-minute options
• What if you don’t match? 3 things you should do

FREIDA™, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database®, enables unmatched students to research residencies from more than 12,000 programs both during and following SOAP. Access is free, but extra benefits—such as a dashboard that helps users save, rank and keep notes on each program—are available to AMA members.  

Research residencies

FREIDA™

Simplify the search for a residency or fellowship with FREIDA™.

FREIDA™ specialty guide

Get details on major specialties as well as training information. 

FREIDA™ by the numbers

Discover which residency programs are capturing the interest of your peers.