Common use of Research and Reporting‌ Clause in Contracts

Research and Reporting‌. The medical school authorizes the NRMP to use any information provided to the NRMP by the medical school in any study approved by the NRMP. The NRMP will not disclose an applicant’s personal information that is clearly and uniquely identifiable to any applicant, program, institution, or medical school except in response to a subpoena or an order from a court of competent jurisdiction. For each applicant who authorizes the NRMP to use applicant information for research purposes, the NRMP may provide such identifiable information only to reputable organizations engaged in undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate education solely for the purposes of performing joint research under strict, binding terms of a confidential data sharing agreement. At no time will the NRMP allow applicant personal information that is clearly and uniquely identifiable to be disclosed in publications, presentations, and reports resulting from such research. The NRMP may anonymize and/or aggregate ranking and matching information and use it for its own reporting purposes and contribute such anonymized, aggregated information to national databases or for NRMP-approved research purposes.

Research and Reporting‌. The medical school authorizes the NRMP to use any information provided to the NRMP by the medical school in any study approved by the NRMP. The NRMP will not disclose an applicant’s personal information that is clearly and uniquely identifiable to any applicant, program, institution, or medical school except in response to a subpoena or an order from a court of competent jurisdiction. For each applicant who authorizes the NRMP to use applicant information for research purposes, the NRMP may provide such identifiable information only to reputable organizations engaged in undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate education solely for the purposes of performing joint research under strict, binding terms of a confidential data sharing agreement. At no time will the NRMP allow applicant personal information that is clearly and uniquely identifiable to be disclosed in publications, presentations, and reports resulting from such research. The NRMP may anonymize and/or aggregate ranking and matching information and use it for its own reporting purposes and contribute such anonymized, aggregated information to national databases or for NRMP-approved research purposes, technology applications and service tools offered by the NRMP.