Residency Programs should familiarize themselves with the information on this page. Cycle deadlines and other important dates are found in the CASPR Schedule below. There is also useful information to learn more about CASPR, the CRIP interview event, and the match process. Links are provided to guide you to external resources related to CASPR and residency programs.
To complete your CASPR registration, make payments, schedule CRIP interviews, or view Match announcements, visit CASPRweb.org.
The CASPR Program Schedule provides you with a timeline for the CASPR cycle including important deadlines you need to meet.
We suggest you download a copy of the schedule and add important dates to your personal calendar.
The Centralized Residency Interview Program (CRIP) is a combined interview event for residency candidates and residency program selection committees. Over 6 days, the majority of CASPR residency programs attend to interview applicants. CRIP is divided into two sections, in order to accommodate all the residency programs. CRIP saves time and money for both applicants and programs.
AACPM staff makes all program interview accommodations for programs at the host hotel based on the information programs provide in the “Scheduling Questionnaires and Accommodation Request Forms.” Those forms become available during the cycle and an announcement is sent. ALL changes to interview schedules and accommodations must be made through AACPM OGS office. Sleeping accommodations, except for those sleeping rooms being used as interview rooms, are made directly with the hotel.
CASPR uses a mathematical algorithm to place applicants into residency positions. Research on the algorithm was the basis for awarding the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
After the match algorithm is run, any unfilled positions are offered to unmatched applicants in a second match we call Match Phase II (MP II).
Unmatched applicants and unfilled programs a period of several days to learn more about each other and to conduct interviews. At the conclusion of this period, unmatched applicants submit a new “rank-order list” of unfilled programs. The rank-order list details the unfilled programs where the applicant wishes to train, ranked in his/her order of preference. Each residency program with unfilled positions also submits a MP II rank-order list, indicating a list of unmatched applicants the program wishes to train, ranked in the program’s order of preference. The process is blinded so that neither applicants nor residency programs see the other’s list. The match computer algorithm is run again with the new MP II rank order lists to see if a match can be made.
The National Matching Services (NMS) CASPR site has an extensive library of resources to help programs navigate the application review, interview scheduling, and match processes.
For more information, visit the websites below or contact us.