2024-25 Match Resources
Download the AAFP’s FREE Guidebook for this Year’s Match!
With practical tips and expert advice to lean on every step of the way, Strolling Through the Match has been helping medical students for decades in the dash to match. As a comprehensive guide to the Match, this booklet provides reliable insight on professional development for all osteopathic and allopathic medical students, guidance on choosing a specialty, and a deep look into the process of choosing and matching into a family medicine residency.
Each year, Strolling Through the Match is updated with the latest statistics and information to ensure students have everything they need to successfully navigate the journey to residency.
Features of the Guide
- Use signaling, past experience, and geographic preference in residency applications
- ERAS updates
- Residency requirements
- Side-by-side comparison of residency training experiences
- Match statistics and strategies for successful match into family medicine
- Events and conferences with residency fairs
- Interview question lists on a variety of subjects
- Guidance for international medical graduates
- Tips on interviewing and writing CVs and personal statements
- Residency selection steps and program evaluation advice
- Real stories from students who have matched into family medicine
- Virtual interview advice
- Updated statistics on the SOAP.
Additional Match Resources
Utah Family Medicine Residency Programs
Visit our website for program descriptions, location, and links to residency websites.
Applying to Family Medicine Residencies Webinar
An expert panel from the AAFP, featuring a family medicine residency program director, medical school faculty advisor, and a resident who recently matched; offers advice about residency applications, interviews, ranking, and more!
Family Medicine Residency Directory
Discover the right family medicine residency program for you by searching the AAFP’s nationwide residency directory.
AAFP App
Research family medicine residencies, generate an interview question list, take notes on programs, and customize a scorecard to rank your favorite programs.
Residency Interview Guide
The guide features tips for planning your trips and preparing for interviews, including sample questions and advice regarding virtual interviews.
The Association of American Medical Colleges’ Apply Smart Data
This data can help you determine how many programs to apply to and avoid over- or under-applying.
The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match Calendar
The NRMP, which conducts the main residency Match, provides updated calendars each year; and serves as a resource for Match rules, yearly trends, and more.
FUTURE
In your first or second year of medical school? It’s never too early to start considering your options. Plan to attend FUTURE (formerly known as the National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students) to meet more than 400 residency programs and experience what family medicine can do. Mark your calendar for the 2025 conference set for Thursday-Saturday, July 31-August 2, 2025, in Kansas City, MO. Registration and scholarship applications will open in spring 2025.