Trade places with another resident

A swap is two residents or fellows in the same specialty and program year trading places: each transfers into the other's program. It is how a resident moves to another city or state without waiting for a vacancy to open there, and it needs the agreement of both program directors.

Yes, all of it. Listing your position, being matched, proposing a swap and being introduced are free with a free ResidencySpot account. Premium is for vacancy contacts and instant vacancy alerts, and is not needed to swap.

Not from the board. A listing shows your specialty, program year and state, and your city if you choose to give it. It never shows your name, your email address or your program. Another resident learns who you are only if you accept an introduction from them, or they accept one from you.

A match is two listings that fit both ways: the same track and program year, each resident in a specialty and a state the other would move to. When your listing makes a two-way match, both of you are emailed at once. If a resident lists a place you want but has not named your state, you are emailed too, once, so you can propose: you can propose a swap to any listing on the board that holds what you want.

The other resident is emailed your listing and your note, without your name or address. If they accept, each of you is sent the other's email address and you take it from there. If they decline, nothing is shared.

You can say you would. A listing always matches within your own specialty, and you can add up to six others you would move into. A change of specialty is harder to arrange than a change of place, because the receiving program has to credit your training.

A listing stays for 120 days. Before then we email you, and one click keeps it. You can pause it, edit it or remove it at any time, and removing it also removes every request that named it.