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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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Osteopathic match places 75 percent of DO students

Osteopathic medical students met their match—75 percent of graduating DO students who participated in the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Intern/Resident Registration Program successfully matched to osteopathic residencies.

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Motives behind resident transfers mostly unknown

Despite a fair amount of medical residents entering a program only to transfer to a different one or specialty, not much is known about why they make these moves. Even when switching to a new program is arduous, residency transfers remain a mystery.

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2014's top moments in medical education

The past year was jam-packed with major events in medical education. Take a look back at six news-making medical education topics.

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Ways students can control residency application costs

If you’re a medical student in the process of applying for residency positions, you’re discovering the applications costs for applications, interviews and fees are adding up. Help control those costs by using these tips.

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Top 5 things residents wish they had known about the Match

Registration for the National Resident Matching Program opened,kicking off a busy season for fourth-year medical students. To help graduating students prepare, residents shared their top five tips on what they wish they had known when they participated in the Match.

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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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Nearly 78% of applicants place in largest specialty Match

New specialty data from the National Resident Matching Program reveals that the 2014 appointment year was the largest in the history of the Specialty Matching Service (SMS), which matches advanced residency and fellowship positions. 

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