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Record-breaking Match sees higher percentage of unmatched seniors

The largest Match in the history of the National Resident Matching Program saw a higher percentage of medical school seniors failing to place into first-year residency positions. Get all the numbers on the 2015 Match.

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After you match, are you ready to pay your loans?

Match Day for medical residencies is only weeks away. It’s also a reminder that med student loan payments will soon come due. Are you ready?

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What it's like to experience the Match as a couple

Applying for residency positions with your partner is completely different when your partner is also applying to Match. One couple discusses what’s it like to experience the Match with your mate?

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Graduating students reflect on the 2014 Match: "Do what's best for you"

The dust surrounding the 2014 National Resident Matching Program has settled, and about 94.4 percent of U.S. allopathic seniors were placed into residency positions. After the anxiety of the long wait and the joy during Match Week, students now are turning their attention toward their futures.

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Graduating medical students meet their Match

More than 17,000 U.S. allopathic medical school seniors and 16,000 other applicants participated in a physician rite of passage this week—the Match. From finding out whether they matched to a residency program to the final reveal of where they will be working on Friday, Match Week is fraught with nerves, emotions and lots of tradition.

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Medical students share Match reactions on Twitter

Many fourth-year medical students experienced a stressful, then joyous Monday, the first day of some National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) results. 

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As Match Day approaches, med students feel anxiety, relief

The National Resident Matching Program will occur the week of March 17. Fourth-year medical students are anxiously awaiting their results, having spent hours preparing, interviewing and ranking.

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