Below are the 2023-2024 residency recruitment guidelines at-a-glance, established by the AOA’s CORD/Academics Committee. For rationale and comprehensive recommendation details, please read the complete AOA/CORD 2023-2024 Residency Recruitment Recommended Guidelines.
2023-2024 Guidelines At-A-Glance
AOA/CORD recommends:
- Programs include information about their programs in ORIN® to serve as a repository for accurate and transparent residency program information.
- No limitations/restrictions for medical student away rotations.
- Programs participate in Universal Interview Offer Day on Monday, November 13, 12:00pm ET, according to the published guidelines.
- Both applicants and programs opt-in to Preference Signaling as part of the AAMC ERAS participation agreement.
- Each applicant will be allotted 30 signals
- Applicants should signal their home programs as well as programs where they may have completed a sub-internship, if those programs are among their preferred programs.
- Applicants with no geographic preference should indicate “no geographic preference” in lieu of leaving that field blank.
- Virtual or In-Person Interviews
- Programs should make their own individual decisions about whether to host virtual or in-person interviews for the 2023-2024 cycle.
- Programs should not offer hybrid interviewing (i.e. some interviews held virtually and some in-person within the same program’s match cycle) for the main applicant pool (non-home students and non-rotators).
- If a program chooses to conduct in-person interviews, a virtual format should only be considered for interviewing home students or those who have done an in-person rotation.
- Programs should publish their decision to proceed with virtual or in-person interviews on the program’s website and in the program’s profile in ORIN®.
- Programs encourage all applicants/recommendation writers to use the eSLOR.