Residency Application
Timelines and Information for the 2027 Residency Application Process
Students will begin the majority of the work for residency application in the third & fourth years.
September, 2025:
- September 19, 2025, Third Year Career Fair – meet the Program Directors
October, 2025:
- October 7, 2025, Third Year Class Meeting on the Fourth Year Schedule
- Late October 2025, MSPE Deans assigned
November, 2025:
- November, TBD, Third Year Class Meeting: A Look Ahead and Planning for the Fourth Year & Meet with Fourth Year Students
December, 2025:
- December 2025, Class of 2027 ERAS token passwords sent out to access partially open ERAS application program
January, 2026:
- January TBD, Third Year Class Meeting on Residency Application & Breakout Sessions with Program Directors
March, 2026
- March 23, 2026, Biosketches & CV submissions are due
April 6-April 10, 2026, Fourth Year Transition
May, 2026: start Personal Statement drafts
June, 2026:
- Early June, 2026, the 2027 ERAS application program opens
- Early June, 2026, the 2027 Residency CAS for Obstetrics/Gynecology and Emergency Medicine application programs open.
- Late June 2026, the 2027 AUA Urology Registration opens
July 2026:
- Early July 2026, the 2027 SF Match Ophthalmology registration and application programs open
- Early July 2026, the 2027 CaRMS registration opens (Canadian Resident Matching Service)
- July 2026, TBD,Personal Statement Workshop
- August 2026 TBD, ERAS Application Workshop
August 2026:
- August 2026, TBD, second Personal Statement Workshop
- Last week of August – transcripts will be uploaded to the SFMatch
September, 2026:
- Early September 2026: SF Match Ophthalmology applications are released to programs
- Early September 2026: ERAS Residency applicants may begin submitting ERAS applications to programs
- Early September 2026: ResidencyCAS Obstetrics/Gynecology applicants may begin submitting ResidencyCAS applications to programs.
- Mid-September 10, 2026, CaRMS (Canadian Match) application program opens.
- September 15, 2026, NRMP registration opens
- September 21-25, 2026, transcripts and MSPEs are uploaded to ERAS and ResidencyCAS; MSPEs are uploaded to SF Match.
- Wednesday, September 30, 2026, MSPEs are released by all application programs to the residency programs.
- Wednesday, September 30, 2026, ERAS & ResidencyCAS applications are released to the programs.
Mid October, 2026:
- Residency Interview Workshop, TBA
December, 2026:
- Late December, 2026, AUA Urology preference list deadline
January, 2027
- January 2027, NRMP Rank List Workshop, TBA
- January 2027, SF Match Ophthalmology Rank Lisk Deadline
- January 2027, CaRMS Ranking Period Opens
- January 2027, SF Match Ophthalmology Match Results released
- January 2027, NRMP standard registration closes (late registration still available)
February, 2027:
- February 2027, AUA Urology Match results released
- February 2027, NRMP Rank List opens for submission
- February 2027, deadline to submit rank list to CaRMS
Late Winter-Mid Spring: GQ Workshops, TBA
March, 2027:
- March 2027, CaRMS Match results posted to CaRMS online.
- March 2027, NRMP deadline to submit Rank Lists
- March 2027, NRMP late registration deadline
- March 15-March 19, 2027, NRMP Match and SOAP week
- Friday, March 19, 2027, NRMP Match Day
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Timelines and Information for 2026 Residency Application Process
Students will begin the majority of the work for residency application in the third & fourth years.
Third Year 2024-25:
- September 20, 2024, Career Fair
October 2024:
- October 7, 2024: Third Year Class Meeting on the Fourth Year Schedule
- October 31, 2024: MSPE Dean assignments released, begin meeting with MSPE Dean
November 2024:
- November 20, 2024: Third Year Class Meeting, “A Look Ahead”, and meet with Fourth Year students
December, 2024:
- ERAS Passwords released for 2026 ERAS Application Program
January 2025:
- January 30, 2025: Third Year Class Meeting on Residency Application; and breakout sessions with Program Directors
March, 2025:
- March 25, 2025: Biosketches & CVs due
Fourth Year 2025-2026:
April 7 – April 11, 2025, Fourth Year Transition
May 2025:
- Start Personal Statement drafts
June 2025:
- June 4, 2025: ERAS opens for applicants (NRMP and AUA Matches)
- June 4, 2025: ResidencyCAS application program opens (Obstetrics/Gynecology and Emergency Medicine)
- June 24, 2025: Urology Match information & registration available
- Military students automatically registered for Army, Air Force and Navy matches
July 2025:
- July 1, 2025: SFMP Ophthalmology registration begins
- July 9, 2025: CaRMS registration opens (Canadian Resident Matching Service)
- July 17, 2025, Personal Statement Workshop
- July 24, 2025, ERAS Application Workshop
August 2025:
- August 13, 2025, Personal Statement Workshop
August & September 2025: Students review MSPE
late August 2025: Transcripts scanned in for the SFMP
September 2025:
- September 2, 2025, SF Ophthalmology Match opens for application submission & release to residency programs
- September 3, 2025, ERAS opens for application submission to residency programs
- September 3, 2025, ResidencyCAS opens for application submission to residency programs
- September 3, 2025, AUA Urology applicant signaling opens
- September 10, 2025, CaRMS application program opens
- September 15, 2025, National Residency Match Program (NRMP) opens for registration
- September 16, 2025, AUA Urology deadline to submit signals
- September 15-September 19, 2025: Transcripts scanned into ERAS, ResidencyCAS and CaRMS
- September 15-September 19, 2025: MSPEs scanned into all application programs: ERAS, SFMatch, ResidencyCAS, CaRMS
- September 24, 2025: MSPEs are released by all application programs to the residency programs
- September 24, 2025: ERAS applications are released to residency programs
- September 24, 2025: ResidencyCAS deadline to submit applications
October, 2025:
- October, (TBA): Residency Interview Workshop
- October: mock interviews with Deans
- October 1, 2025, ResidencyCAS programs can access application information.
- October 24, 2025, all AUA Urology programs offer interviews
- October 27, 2025, all AUA Urology applicants’ deadline to accept or reject interviews
October-November, 2025: SF Match Ophthalmology interview invitation release dates:
- October 15, 2025, 12:00 noon PT
- October 22, 2025, 12:00 noon PT
- October 29, 2025, 12:00 noon PT
- November 5, 2025, 12:00 noon PT
October 2025-February 2026: Residency Interviews
November, 2025:
- November 27, 2025, 12:00 noon ET: deadline to submit at CaRMS application documents
December, 2025:
- Mid-December: Military Match results released
- December 29, 2025, AUA Urology preference list deadline
January, 2026
- NRMP Rank List Workshop, TBA
- January 22, 2026, SF Match Ophthalmology Rank Lisk Deadline, 12:00 noon PT
- January 22, 2026, CaRMS Ranking Period Opens
- January 29, 2026, SF Match Ophthalmology Match Results, 5:00 am PT
- January, 29, 2026, SF Match Ophthalmology post-match vacancies, 9:00 am PT
- January 30, 2026, NRMP standard registration closes (late registration still available)
January 17, 2026-February 8, 2026: CaRMS National Interview Period
February, 2026:
- February 2, 2026, AUA Urology Match results released, via e-mail
- February 2, 2026, NRMP Rank List opens
- February 19, 2026, 3:00 pm ET: deadline to submit rank list to CaRMS
Late Winter-Mid Spring: GQ Workshops, TBA
March, 2026:
- March 3, 2026, 12:00 noon ET, CaRMS Match results posted to CaRMS online.
- March 4, 2026, NRMP deadline to submit Rank Lists, 9:00 pm ET.
- March 4, 2026, NRMP late registration deadline, 9:00 pm ET
- March 16-March 20, 2026, NRMP Match and SOAP week
- Friday, March 20, 2026, NRMP Match Day