Applicant registration begins at 12:00 noon eastern time.

Institution/program registration begins at 12:00 noon eastern time.

Rank order list entry begins.
Applicants and programs may start entering their rank order lists at 12:00 noon eastern time.

Quota change deadline
Programs must submit final information on quotas and withdrawals by 11:59 p.m. eastern time.

Late registration deadline

Rank order list certification deadline
Applicants and programs must certify their rank order lists by 9:00 p.m. eastern time. Staff will be available to answer your questions during the final deadline hours. CERTIFIED applicant and program rank order lists and any other information pertinent to the Match must be entered in the R3 System by this date and time.

Withdraw Deadline
Independent applicants who have accepted a position through another national matching plan or by agreement outside the Matching Program must withdraw by 9:00 p.m. eastern time.

Applicant matched and unmatched information posted to the Web site at 12:00 noon eastern time.

Filled and unfilled results for individual programs posted to the Web site at 11:30 a.m. eastern time.

Locations of all unfilled positions are released at 12:00 noon eastern time. Unmatched applicants may begin contacting unfilled programs at 12:00 noon eastern time.

Match Day! Match results for applicants are posted to Web site at 1:00 p.m. eastern time.

Hospitals send letters of appointment to matched applicants after this date.

Note: Any contact between programs and unmatched applicants (or their designees) prior to 12:00 noon eastern time Tuesday, March 16, 2010, is a violation of the Match Participation Agreement. Contact between programs and matched applicants prior to the general announcement of 2008 Match results at 1:00 p.m. eastern time Thursday, March 18, 2010, also is a violation of the Match Participation Agreement.