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Timelines and Deadlines

ERAS 2009 Applicant Timeline

Date	Activity
Mid-late June 2008	ERAS 2009 Applicant User Guide will be available for PDF download by chapter or in its entirety on our Web site. Schools may begin to generate and distribute MyERAS tokens to applicants.
July 1, 2008	MyERAS Web site opens to applicants to begin working on their applications. ERAS Support Services at ECFMG will begin generating and distributing tokens to IMGs. Osteopathic applicants may begin selecting and applying to osteopathic training programs only.
July 15, 2008	Osteopathic training programs can begin contacting the ERAS PostOffice to download application files.
September 2, 2008*	Applicants may begin applying to ACGME accredited programs. ACGME accredited programs may begin contacting the ERAS PostOffice to download application files.
October 15, 2008	MSPEs are released to AOA accredited programs.**
November 1, 2008	MSPEs are released to ACGME accredited programs.**
December 2008	Military Match
January 2009	Urology Match
February 2009	Osteopathic Match
March 2009	NRMP Match results will be available.
May 31, 2009	ERAS PostOffice will close to prepare for the 2010 season.

*The ERAS PostOffice will open at 8:00 A.M. ET on September 2, 2008 for all ACGME-accredited residency programs. The ERAS office will be closed on September 1, 2008 in observance of the Labor Day holiday.

**According to their schedule, your designated dean's office will upload the MSPE to the ERAS PostOffice. The MSPE (along with other ERAS documents) are transmitted from the Dean's Office Workstation (DWS) to the ERAS PostOffice, and are placed in the programs' mailboxes. Most uploaded files become available immediately; the MSPEs, however, are held until October 15th for osteopathic residency programs and November 1st for allopathic residency programs.

Program Application Deadlines

ERAS does not set program application deadlines as the individual programs set the deadlines. You should contact programs directly for their deadlines. The ERAS PostOffice, however, closes on May 31st every year to prepare for the next ERAS application season. At that time all of our servers are purged of all applications and supporting documents. ERAS does not maintain records from year to year.