2025-26 Recruitment Timeline:​

• Unified Interview Release Date – Interview Invitation Notifications – 10/21/25, 3pm EST

• Unified Interview Release Date – Interview Scheduling Opens – 10/22/25, 6pm EST

• Interview Schedule Deadline – 10/29/25, 7pm MST

  • Unscheduled interviews or declined interviews will be released to a waitlist

• Final Interview Status Notifications - no later than 12/20/25

• DHREM Rank Order List Meeting - 1/20/26

• DHREM Rank Order List Finalization - 1/31/26

• National Residency Match Program (NRMP) Ranking Opens 2/2/26

• In-Person Second Look Opportunities

  • DHREM Conference – 2/4/26

  • DHREM Conference – 2/18/26

  • University of Colorado GME Second Look – 2/126/26 & 2/27/26

• NRMP Ranking Order List Certification Deadline - 3/4/26

• Match Status – 3/16/26

• Match Day – 3/20/26

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How will preference signaling be used?

DHREM is participating in preference signaling for the 2025-2026 application cycle but will use received signals in decision-making around interview invitations ONLY.

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Additional information information:

In compliance with the CORD Application Process Improvement Committee’s (APIC) Best Practices for the 2025-2026 Residency Application and Interview Season, DHREM will maintain the following policies:

• Virtual interviews for all applicants, including in-person rotators

• Prominently sharing interview plans and recruitment timeline with all applicants

• Anti-bias training for all application reviewers and interviewers, including residents and faculty

• Limiting interview invitations to the number of interview slots available

• Applicants will have at least 72 hours to respond to interview invitations

• Interview invitation offers will be sent after 6pm MST

• Final interview status will be released to all applicants no later than December 20th, 2025.

• In-person second look opportunities will be available for applicants, after submission of program’s rank order list.

  • No in-person contact between program representatives (leadership, residents, faculty, coordinators) and applicants will occur prior to finalization of the rank order list

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Will there be Second Look events?​

Yes. Applicants are welcome to attend in-person second look events ONLY if they feel that attendance will be helpful to them in deciding about their preferences for residency training. Due to the fact that in-person second look events will occur after DHREM’s finalization of our Rank Order List, visiting for an in-person second look event will have no impact on the applicants position on our already completed Rank Order List. Applicants are welcome to visit during any of above listed in-person second look dates. For each of these dates, there will be an in-person Happy Hour on Tuesday evening (6-8pm), didactic conference and activities (8:30-1:30pm), lunch with residents and faculty (1:30-2:30pm), and a hospital tour. Applicants are welcome to attend any part of second look events and if they are visiting, they are not required to attend all events. Additional information around in-person second looks and RSVPs will be distributed in December.

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Post-interview communication

In compliance with NRMP guidelines, DHREM leadership will not contact applicants following interviews. If applicants have questions, they may contact the program, but post-interview communication is not expected. Additionally, DHREM does not send gifts to applicants. As a county safety-net program, we prioritize our finances in the service of our patients.

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