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A small tweak to the tie-break rules nudged hundreds of applicants into different programs.
When the National Resident Matching Program quietly updated its tie-break logic last fall, the change was billed as a clarification, not a reform. But an analysis of this year’s match outcomes suggests the tweak nudged several hundred applicants into different programs — most of them in primary care.
The NRMP confirmed the change in a statement to Scrubswire and said it had been disclosed in the program’s annual policy summary.
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