Year 4

What you need to know about the 2026 ERAS Application Season

What's new for the 2026 MyERAS Application

ERAS Tools and Worksheets for Applicants 

ERAS PPT (2026)

ERAS Applicant Worksheet

Year 4 Checklist 

Program Signaling for MyERAS Application 2026 and here

ERAS Resources for Specialty Societies.

ERAS Residency Applicant FAQs

ERAS Registration Process

2026 MyERAS® Applicant User Guide 

Download the DWS User Guide

2026 ERAS Participating Specialties and Programs webpage

Residency Explorer Tool

Exploring the Relationship between Program Signaling, Geographic Preference & Interview Invitations (video)

MyERAS Program Signals (video)

2025 ERAS Participating Specialties and Programs Page:  Advisors and applicants looking for information about which residency programs are participating in the ERAS program for the 2025 recruitment season can easily do so on this page. In addition to using the drop-down menu to show participating programs, this page, which is updated daily, allows visitors to search by specialty and program find such info as:  

·       Program Type (Residency or Fellowship). 

·       Location (State and City). 

·       Program Signal Information. 

·       National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) participation.   

Specialty guidance is also included and updated throughout the season.  

NRMP Program Directory: The directory provides application service requirements of The Match-participating programs along with other key program information including location, links to the institution and program websites, NRMP program code, and program type. The program directory is updated daily. 

ResidencyCAS Application Quick Start Guide - Liaison

• Emergency Medicine Worksheet
• OB/GYN Applicant Worksheet
• ResidencyCAS: OBGYN and EM Webinar for Student Affairs Deans and Career Advisors Webinar – Recording May 2025
• ResidencyCAS: OBGYN and EM Webinar for Student Affairs Deans and Career Advisors Slides
• Residency CAS Student Applicant Help Center and Applicant Quick Start Guide
• Residency CAS Timeline (opens June 4, deadline Sept 24, programs can start viewing apps Oct 1)

Residency Application Packet (2026)

AAMC Residency Program Evaluation Guide 

Ranking programs in the NRMP 

Supplemental Rank Order Lists

How the Matching Algorithm Works

Couples and the NRMP Matching Algorithm

Applicant Coupling: How To

Couples: Certifying Rank Order List 

Charting the Outcomes tool 

Residency Explorer tool 

Texas STAR (you will need a token to access)

AAMC Visiting Student Learning Opportunities^™ (VSLO^®) program 

Watch the first VSLO ILM here (from Advising) and the second one here (from an alumn)

Writing a Personal Statement/Letter of Interest for an Away Rotation

• FAQs for Interviews
• AAMC Interview Resources for Applicants
• Acuity Insights Website/Scheduling (Anesthesiology, IM, Urology, OB-Gyn)
• AAMC Residency Program Evaluation Guide 

Central Application -  Please check with specific programs for details.

• For plastic surgery, students will request a transcript through FSMB (this is the process the NBME had us use -- we know it's unusual) -- instructions are written for how to do this.
• In anesthesiology, they self-enter their scores and programs will have their official reports through the NBME from ERAS.

Central Application FAQ's

CentralApp is to be used exclusively for all plastic surgery programs this year as well as at least 30 anesthesiology programs (see list below) in a second year of piloting this cycle.   

In order to facilitate medical school access to CentralApp, we have built an administrator portal for you to verify students, submit documents (MSPE, transcript) and to see the status of your students' applications. In order to have access to this portal, we need to identify an administrative user for your school. The portal allows for multiple users (e.g., Dean, OSA admins, registrar(s), etc) on a team to share access to a common hub, and it is easy to add additional users.  If you have not already accessed the portal, please email help@accessgme.com with the name and email of an administrative user from your school. User support questions should be sent here as well -- you get a response in less than 24 hours.

More anesthesiology programs will continue to join CentralApp for this year (September 1 deadline for programs to join), and we will keep an updated list of programs off our main page CentralApp. Please encourage your students to continue to monitor this list (Participating Programs). Applications will be released to all programs on September 16, without the MSPE, which will be released in accordance with the LCME requirement (9/25). Any questions about submission deadlines need to be directed to individual programs.

Included are links to a user guide for the medical school portal (Med School Portal) and content of the two applications (PSCA, ACA).  If you wish to login in as a student to view the screens, please reach out and we will share test environment accounts for you to login.  Thank you!

Right Resident, Right Program, Ready Day One: Applicant Resources - APGO

Please pay particular attention to the application worksheet, webinars, and the SLOE resources.

GSA-OPDA Working Group Residency Guides:  Members of the GSA, Careers in Medicine, and Organization of Program Director Associations (OPDA) are collaborating in an effort to increase transparency in the residency application process through the use of a Residency Guide template for each specialty.  We are delighted to have 17 specialties participating this year as part of the pilot project!  All Residency Guides for participating specialties can be found on the OPDA website:  https://cmss.org/opda/. Please share this resource broadly with students, advisors, and program directors at your institution.  The participating specialties include...

Dermatology, Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine, Medical Genomics (both categorical and combined), Neurology, Neurological Surgery, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry, Surgical Critical Care, Thoracic Surgery, and Transitional Year Residency.

Anesthesiology Guidance: Please find the updated guidance from the Association of Anesthesiology Core Program Directors (AACPD) regarding the upcoming residency cycle and use of application platforms in the AACPD Guide for Residency Applicants 2024-2025. Currently, 158 anesthesiology programs are registered for the ERAS program. 

Link to PowerPoint: 

Rank Order List, Love Letter, Matching Algorithm PPT

Link to recording of session

Links to informational videos:

• The Match Process
• Creating a ROL
• Supplemental ROL
• Couples Match