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ISMMS Student Elected to National Resident Matching Program Board of Directors

First-year student, Kipp Johnson, to begin his two-year term in July.

  • NRMP
  • (May 20, 2015)

Kipp Johnson, MD/PhD candidate at Icahn School of Medicine, was elected as a one of two Student Directors to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Board of Directors. Mr. Johnson will serve a two-year term on the board, which deals with issues and concerns of students transitioning from undergraduate to graduate medical education.

The NRMP is a private, non-profit organization, that uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to match the preferences of graduating medical students with the preferences of program directors in order to fill training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals. Every October they issue a call for nominations to its board. Read more.