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209. Make Me a Match

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Medical Residency Matching

In 19 52, they created the national resident matching programme. They developed a market place that has survived till to day. By the 19 nineties, this system was showing strain. Some people thought the hospitals had too much leverage over the residence. The algorithm worked well, and it now matches more than 20 thousand applicants each year.

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