2025 ISMM Fellowships

The portal is NOT available before the open date. We are continuously working to improve this process but need to allow the applicants in the past match cycle to complete their processes and access the previous year’s materials. In the event the open date is earlier than initially announced, it will be noted on the NASS website, however, the interview dates and other timelines will NOT change.

Yes, there is a $200 non-refundable application fee that will be required before any application can be filled out or submitted.

If you withdraw your application, the fee is not refundable or transferable. Once the fee has been processed it cannot be refunded or transferred based on your participation within the fellowship match.

The information needed on the application follows. If you have already filled this information out as a part of your membership application or attendance to past events, this information will be pre-populated with what we already have in our system.

• Contact Information
• Addresses
• Education
• Research
• Personal Statement
• Professional Information
• USMLE/COMLEX Scores
• Letters of Recommendation (LOR)

Please note that the LORs cannot be uploaded until the application is submitted and link is generated.

Unfortunately, you cannot upload any materials until the application fee has been paid and the application has been submitted.

Upon completion of the application, a unique private link is generated for each applicant, facilitating the submission of LORs. This link serves as a secure channel that applicants can share exclusively with individuals they've chosen to provide recommendations, such as professors or employers. The shared link grants access to a platform where those individuals can upload the LORs directly. In the applicant portal, users can view essential details like filenames and authors associated with the uploaded files. Notably, the system ensures the confidentiality of the recommendation letters by restricting the applicant's access to the actual content of the files, providing a streamlined and secure process for managing LOR submissions.

Interviews are conducted both in-person and virtually. This will be determined by each institution, and you will be contacted directly to arrange the interviews.

NASS does not facilitate or promise that you will be interviewed if you apply to an institution. These decisions are solely made by each program following review of your application. NASS is NOT notified by the institutions of candidate reviews or interviews.

To view the list of institution participating in the match this year you can access the Fellowship Directory and Details.

After the submission of your application, you will be provided a list of participating institutions where you may select to apply.

Once submitted, you may edit your application to add/remove institutions. Only institutions that you select will have access to your application and materials.

To view the list of institution participating in the match this year you can access the Fellowship Directory and Details.

Please note that this is subject to change based on the information confirmed by each institution during the ranking process.

Due to the flexibility NASS offers all candidates and institutions you do not need to officially "submit" or "certify" your final decisions. Once you save your results they are immediately submitted and can be changed/updated anytime until the closure of the ranking lists.

Please see the timeline to determine the closure date for the ranking list submission.

If you are having issues upload documents, please contact us so that we can arrange for these to be uploaded on your behalf.

Please notes that large file sizes may take a while to upload and if you navigate away from the page before it has completed it will not upload. You should see a status on that browser tab that will show if it is still in process.

You can withdrawal your application at any time by filling out this form to confirm your withdrawal.

Your ranking lists will be available in your respective dashboards when it is open based on the timeline provided for that cycle. There is a MAX selection of 20 options for each list. This is well beyond the limit needed to match and is NOT required to be fully filled out for all options to be submitted. Please leave unselected options blank and do not repeat.

You will not have access to any ranking or viewing of rank lists until it has opened.

Any type of document will be allowed (please see what file types are best). If you are providing a specific document for an institution, we recommend that you upload it to your application so it can be viewed by all institutions.

We will make every attempt to upload all file types, however, it will be provided to each institution in that file type that was uploaded. We recommend that you export to a PDF if possible or use a standard word/text-based file type (i.e. docx or txt).

If you would like to remove the files uploaded on your behalf, you are able to access the private upload link and if logged in to your NASS account will be provided a list of files under your application.

Click on the delete button to remove that file. If you have any issues seeing that button or removing that file please contact us.

You are NOT able to directly update any file uploaded to your application. You would need to re-upload that file and delete the old one.

If you need assistance please contact us.

Your application is only made available, once submitted, to the institutions you have chosen from the list of those participating. Institutions do NOT have universal access to all candidates in the program, only those to which an applicant has applied.

You can edit your application at any time by logging into your dashboard where you can update all information you initially provided in your application along with the institutions to which you would like to apply.

Please note that once you update information it will update the date modified on the institution dashboard, but they may need to recheck their dashboard to see those updates.

The application provides the ability to make a general personal statement that can be provided to all institutions. If you would like to have an individualized personal statement you may do so and upload it to your application like the letters of recommendation.

Please note that this will be able to be viewed by each institution to which you have applied. You cannot share specific files with specific institutions.

It is recommended that you rank all institutions (MAX 20) that you would like to work with. There is no guarantee that a match will take place but the more options you rank, the better chance you have of placing with an institution.

The system is built to make every attempt to fill all slots an institution has and match you with your highest rated selections. For more information about the ranking process see the FAQ for how the match process works.

Can I rank programs that I did NOT interview with? Yes, each candidate can rank ANY institution that is participating in the match for that fellowship cycle. Please note that for a match to even occur it will require both the candidate and the institution to rank each other. If you did not interview or apply to that institution the likelihood of matching is quite low.

NASS does not have access to the lists for each institution and cannot confirm or deny interest of either party.

This is up to the individual institutions. You will have to contact them directly to determine if they accept FMGs.

The match results will be provided via email to all candidates and institutions by the end of business day per the timeline provided for that cycle. Due to email systems, it may arrive at different times so please allow until the end of the day before contacting NASS regarding your match results.

ONLY candidates who participated in the match for that cycle are available to be contacted to fill any available vacancies.

The list of vacancies will be provided via email to candidates and institutions who applied and were not placed and did not withdrawal their application.

The match makes every attempt to match those with the highest rank. Many candidates can rank the same institution in the same position, but it is the ranking of the institution will be the determining factor for if they are placed, depending on how many slots are still available.

Please note that all discussions about the match prior to the rank lists cannot be taken as final. Since these results are blinded NASS is unable to verify where a candidate or institution was on another’s list.

All results are certified and confirmed by NASS which reviewed for accuracy upon the results being provided.

The key to understanding the matching process is the concept of 'tentative acceptance.' The process is an 'applicant driven' one; this means that it is controlled by the applicants' requests for placement. At first, all acceptances are tentative. As programs receive more requests, they will retain only those applicants they consider most desirable according to their rank lists. For a match to take place both the candidate and the institution must list each other on their rank lists. If either side does not have them listed a match will not occur.

The match process is blinded where neither candidates or institutions have access to the ranking lists or results outside of their own. All results are certified and confirmed by NASS, which reviews for accuracy upon receipt of the results.