ID fellowship match

The Electronic Residency Application Service, administered by the Association of American Medical Colleges, transmits fellowship applications and supporting documents from applicants to training programs. 

Applicants must submit applications through ERAS to be considered for ID fellowship positions through the Match. 

The National Resident Matching Program administers the ranking and Match process through its Medicine and Pediatric Specialties Match, which includes the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Match. 

Applicants and training programs submit rank order lists through NRMP. 

Introduction to the Fellowship Match Webinar (February 2026)  

NRMP and ERAS are separate organizations that support different components of the Match process: 

ERAS is the application system through which candidates submit fellowship applications and programs review materials. 

NRMP administers the ranking and Match process. 

Applicants apply through ERAS and submit rank order lists through NRMP. 

ID fellowship programs must be registered with NRMP and compliant with IDSA’s All-In Policy to access applications through ERAS. 

Yes. IMGs may participate in the Match as long as they have completed all training required for the position, meet ACGME eligibility requirements and meet any eligibility requirements provided by the sponsoring institution. For visa guidance and additional support, visit IDSA’s IMG information page. 

Like external candidates, internal candidates will need to register for and participate in the ID Match. Programs that wish to retain those candidates may place those candidates at the top of their rank order lists. 

As the Match sponsor, IDSA supports the All-In Policy because it promotes fairness, transparency and equity for applicants and programs. By requiring all positions to be offered through the NRMP Match, the policy reduces pre-Match pressures and helps preserve a consistent, national recruitment process for the specialty.  

Yes. All candidates must submit their applications for fellowship through ERAS and register with NRMP. 

Programs have flexible options and can create tracks (clinical, research and other) if desired to differentiate training options within individual programs. Training programs can designate to NRMP that unfilled positions in one track revert to an alternate track or remain unfilled. Programs should ensure that each eligible candidate understands about the different tracks. 

NRMP has approved a Match exception for adult medicine/pediatric ID positions to allow programs to offer a position outside the Match for the second specialty. The exception is available regardless of the order of training for the combined fellowship applicant. 

For example, if a position is offered to a candidate for a pediatric ID position within the Match, the candidate can simultaneously be offered an adult ID position outside of the Match. 

Yes. The position must be placed into the Match and the trainee must go through the Match process. A program may guarantee the trainee a slot in the fellowship program. During the Match process, the program should rank the trainee first in the Match list. 

Yes. The ID position in the combined fellowship program must go through the Match. For example, if a trainee is accepted into a critical care program, the ID fellowship program at that institution is permitted to guarantee that trainee that they will be ranked to Match in their ID program during a subsequent year, provided that the offer of the ID spot is not contingent upon the trainee ranking the institution’s ID program first on their list.