Cycle 2026–2027 Updates

Evaluations Now Autosave

When completing application review forms, they now automatically save after every edit. This guarantees that no work is ever lost, allowing you to review applications at your own pace. 

From the review panel, you’ll notice a few new features on the review form:

1. Draft Status: indicates whether the review is Not Started, a Saved Draft, or Submitted.  
2. Draft Last Saved Date: when the review was last saved. 
3. Save Now: while your changes are saved automatically, Save Now provides an extra level of confidence when you want to save your work immediately.

You can access your saved reviews and resume work on them from the Toolbar at the top of the Applications Grid.

Note: in progress reviews are specific to each reviewer. No other user, regardless of their role, can view another user’s drafts or draft statuses. Only submitted reviews are visible to others.

Manage Your Program's Branding

You can now manage your program branding, including the image and description applicants see during the application process, directly in the Configuration Portal. Instead of submitting a branding request form, you can view and update your program's branding yourself, making it faster and easier to keep your program information current.

Interview Time Restrictions Removed

When creating an interview session and schedule, there are no longer restrictions on session start times or interview durations. The minimum interview duration has been decreased from 5 to 1 minute, and the total interview duration no longer needs to be in 5-minute intervals. This improves scheduling flexibility, as sessions can now start at any point, and the interview time and total interview duration can be as long or short as necessary. 

Example of Room Settings for a session that begins at 9:03 AM, with 2-minute interview and 1-minute review durations:

Enhanced Cohort Assignment Flexibility

You can now update appl

icant cohort assignments before an interview session is full. Previously, cohort assignments could only be changed after all interview slots in the session were filled. This provides greater flexibility when organizing applicants into interview cohorts during scheduling.

Enhanced Sequential Waitlist Management

Programs with Sequential Waitlists enabled in their Program Settings can now edit session waitlist orders by accessing Assigned Applicants in the Session Details page, and dragging and dropping them. This allows programs to customize the notification sequence of waitlisted applicants.

Direct Waitlisting for Full Sessions

Applicants can now join the waitlist for full sessions without needing to commit to an open session. Once invited, they have the flexibility to schedule open sessions and/or waitlist for full sessions. They can adjust their choices any time before the applicant deadline. This provides a fully autonomous waitlist process.

Waitlisted Sessions Displayed on Applicant Side Panel

Selecting an applicant in the Applicants section now shows their waitlisted sessions in the side panel, providing a clearer view of their session activity.

Improved Assignment Summary Email Logic

Users will no longer receive assignment summary emails if they have no outstanding reviews. This change reduces unnecessary notifications, ensuring that all emails require action.

Enhanced Session Visibility

The information displayed to users assigned to a session has been expanded to clarify schedule details.

1. Interviewers and applicants can now see their scheduled sessions, even if the schedule has not been created. This is indicated by a green dot in their calendar view, along with the session details in their list view. This gives a more accurate representation of all scheduled interviews.
2. When session visibility is disabled, scheduled interviewers can still see the session and their assigned applicants on their dashboard. This provides clearer schedules and the ability to hide sessions from unscheduled applicants.
3. On the Sessions page, a lock symbol appears next to a session’s date where the Session Management Deadline has passed. On its Session Details page, an alert explains this further. This allows program managers to easily identify sessions that applicants can no longer interact with. 

Improved Rank List Functionality

1. Rank lists now occupy an entire page, reducing the need to scroll.
2. You can now manually enter the rank order of each applicant, in addition to dragging and dropping them, for quick and efficient changes.

Required Final Score Comment

When a program manager enters a final score that differs from the average score, an explanation is now required. This helps track why a score was changed, as the Final Interview Score Comment is an exportable field.

Additional Mandatory Room Available

The number of available Required Rooms For All Applicants per session has increased from 4 to 5, enabling the creation of more complex interview schedules.

Updated Settings Menu Organization

We've reorganized the Settings Menu to increase clarity and make it easier to navigate. Settings are now grouped more intentionally, with organization-wide (global) items at the top and application- or cycle-related items grouped lower in the menu.

These changes are part of ongoing improvements to how settings are structured, but there is no change to existing functionality. Only the layout and organization of the menu have been updated.

Clerkship Grades Available in the Applicant PDF

Clerkship grades are now included in the application PDF under the Medical Schools Attended section. This change makes it easier to analyze clerkship grades when exporting data from ResidencyCAS. Additionally, you can select these grades when creating a custom export.

New Option to Send Applicant Reminder Emails (April 6)

You can now send a reminder email to applicants remaining in the Invited and Ready for Scheduling status after a specified number of days since their initial invitation.

Mobile and Accessibility Enhancements (April 16)

We have enhanced the experience for mobile and tablet devices while improving accessibility to better support all users. These updates offer a more consistent and user-friendly experience on smaller screens, along with enhancements that ensure compliance with Section 508 standards.

New Resume PDF Export

You can now export applicants' resumes from the Program Portal via a new Resume PDF export template. The resume PDF includes the following sections:

• Contact Information
• Education
• Work Experience
• Research Experience
• Awards
• Presentations and Publications
• Hobbies