Summary of the Israeli Medical Internship Match

“Slava Bronfman, Avinatan Hassidim, Gideon Kalif, and Assaf Romm (2017), Matching practices for entry-labor markets – The Israeli Medical Internship Match, MiP Country Profile 25.”

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What is allocated?	Medical internships.
Who are the participants?	Graduates of medical schools.
Stated objectives of matching policy	Fairness among doctors, equal spread of talent across the country.
Who’s in charge?	The Ministry of Health and a committee elected by the student body.
In place since	2014
Available capacity	Same as the number of doctors (≈500 local grads + ~200 foreign grads).
Timing of enrolment	May of every year.
Information available to applicants prior to enrolment period	Description and code of the mechanism, summary statistics of previous years.
Restrictions on preference expression	Students must rank all hospitals.
Matching procedure	Variant of competitive equilibrium with equal incomes (CEEI).
Priorities and quotas	Proportional to hospitals’ size, and extra for periphery.
Further special feature	Couples are to the same hospital.

Bronfman, S., Alon, N., Hassidim, A., and Romm, A.,2015. Redesigning the Israeli Medical Internship Match. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 753-754.

 Bronfman, S., Hassidim, A., Afek, A., Romm, A., Shreberk, R., Hassidim, A. and Massler, A., 2015. Assigning Israeli medical graduates to internships. Israel journal of health policy research, 4(1).