About IMGPrep
About IMGPrep
Over two decades of one question:
What does this candidate actually need?
IMGPrep is a residency match consulting firm. Established in 2005. Built around the premise that the U.S. Match is decided by structural alignment, not by application volume.
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21+
Years of Match Consulting
Established 2005
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Aligned with the American Medical Student Association
What IMGPrep Does
IMGPrep develops candidacies. Over two decades of residency match consulting, with international medical graduates as the principal focus. The work is structural — positioning each candidate inside how programs actually filter, review, and rank.
The firm
Three statements about how IMGPrep works.
The Match is structured. We treat it that way.
Residency selection is a sequence of structural filters and qualitative reviews, applied in order, by people. IMGPrep's work is to position each candidacy inside that sequence — with frameworks built on NRMP and ACGME data, not anecdote. The Match is not a lottery. It is a sorting mechanism, and sorting mechanisms can be understood.
We work with one candidate at a time.
Engagements are not packaged into hours or sessions. Every candidate's engagement is structured around the trajectory of their candidacy — sometimes a single application cycle, sometimes several. The methodology is continuity. The output is a candidate that programs can read.
We curate. We do not accumulate.
Not every clinical rotation, research project, letter, or program belongs in a candidacy. IMGPrep helps each candidate choose what to pursue, what to emphasize, what to decline, and what to leave out — in service of the coherent application being built. Curation is the work most consulting services skip. It is the work that distinguishes Match-aligned applicants from everyone else.
The track record
Two decades of Match outcomes.
89%
Aggregate Match rate
Across IMGPrep's consulting candidates since the firm's inception in 2005.
100%
Match rate, 2026 cycle
In the 2026 Main Residency Match across every specialty IMGPrep candidates applied in.
Top 3
Where most candidates matched
The vast majority of 2026 candidates matched into one of their top three ranked programs.
2026 Match Specialties
Internal Medicine · Family Medicine · Pediatrics · Psychiatry · Surgery · Emergency Medicine · Neurology · Child Neurology · Pathology · Obstetrics and Gynecology · Ophthalmology
Also in 2026
Pre-Residency Neurosurgery placement — not a residency position, but a competitive entry position into the Neurosurgery training pipeline.
A note on outcomes
We do not promise the Match. No ethical advisor can. What we do promise is a rigorous, data-driven, and highly individualized strategy built around how residency programs actually evaluate and select applicants. The application is the candidate's. The strategy, positioning, and long-term planning are ours.
IMGPrep is not structured as a transactional service. Our candidates become part of the IMGPrep family. We remain involved throughout the application cycle, through Match season, and often well into residency training itself. Many return years later for fellowship strategy, academic positioning, and the next stage of their professional development.
The overwhelming majority of IMGPrep candidates come to us through referrals from former candidates, residents, fellows, and attendings who experienced the process firsthand.
That matters more than any advertisement ever could. Reputation cannot be manufactured. It is built over years through outcomes, trust, and the willingness of former candidates to place their names behind your work.
How we begin
Every engagement begins with a conversation.
IMGPrep is a consulting firm. Before any work begins, there is a conversation about whether the firm is the right fit for the candidacy — and whether the candidacy is one IMGPrep is positioned to help.
01
Consult
An initial conversation.
No pitch. No template. We listen first — to where you are, what brought you here, and what you are trying to do.
02
Identify the candidate
The structural realities.
Profile, scores, training stage, visa status, year of graduation, U.S. clinical experience — the structural realities that shape the candidacy.
03
Understand the goal
Where do you see yourself?
The specialty, the setting, the kind of physician you are working to become — in five years, not just at the next Match.
04
Assess the fit
A feasible plan, or none at all.
Whether IMGPrep can help, whether the timeline supports it, and whether a plan together is realistic. If yes, we build it. If no, we say so.
We do not begin with a contract. We begin with a question.
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What sets the firm apart.
Over two decades of consulting.
IMGPrep was established in 2005 and has guided candidates through every cycle of NRMP rule changes, ERAS reforms, and shifting program preferences since. The firm has seen the U.S. Match evolve from inside the work, not from a textbook.
Match strategy as a discipline.
The Match is a sorting mechanism, not a lottery. IMGPrep treats it that way — with frameworks, data, and an analytical approach to how programs actually filter and rank applicants. Advice is built on NRMP, ACGME, and peer-reviewed evidence, not anecdote.
A long-term engagement model.
IMGPrep works with each candidate for the duration of the Match journey, not in packaged sessions or hours. Engagements are structured around the trajectory of the applicant — sometimes a single cycle, sometimes several. Continuity is the methodology.
A complete service ecosystem.
Match consulting, U.S. clinical experience, ERAS document development, customized programs lists, and interview preparation are all built and delivered in-house, integrated under one strategy. No outsourcing. No handoffs.
If you are ready
Begin the conversation.
An initial consultation to understand your trajectory and whether IMGPrep is the right fit. No pressure. No template. One conversation about where you want to be in five years.
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About Us
Established in 2005, IMGPrep assists International Medical Graduates in searching for U.S residency positions. We offer a complete set of affordable services. Our experts evaluate each IMG candidate and suggest what is needed for a medical residency match in the USA.
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