Overview
CONAREME is Peru's national medical residency council. Each year it runs the Concurso Nacional de Admisión al Residentado Médico, the national contest that awards medical specialty and subspecialty residency places. The contest combines a curricular evaluation of each applicant's file with a written exam. Results are ranked in order of merit by application mode and specialty or subspecialty.
Important dates
The official 2026 schedule was approved on 15 May 2026 and modified in early July. Its main steps are:
| Step | 2026 date |
|---|---|
| Call for the contest published | 9 July |
| Payment to the CONAREME account opens | 10 July |
| Registration in SIGESIN opens | 11 July |
| Payment deadline | 24 July, 18:00 |
| Registration deadline | 27 July, 23:59 |
| Curricular evaluation | 15 July to 14 August |
| Results of file evaluation published, with flagged files | 15 August |
| Claims against file observations | 17 to 20 August |
| Final list of applicants allowed to sit the exam | 28 August |
| Written admission exam | Sunday 6 September |
| Final results (exam plus file) in merit order | by 7 September |
| Vacancy allocation in merit order | 9 to 11 September |
| Complementary national allocation | 18 September |
| Contest closes | 22 September |
| Start of residency | 1 October |
How to apply
Pay into the CONAREME collection account and register through the SIGESIN system within the dates above. The schedule does not state the fee or eligibility rules, so check the official contest rules and call notice for those.
After the exam
Vacancies are allocated in real time, in merit order, by the Admission Jury using CONAREME's software. New residents then enrol at their university. A resident can give up an allocated vacancy through SIGESIN until 15 September, and the vacancies freed this way go to the complementary allocation.
When is the written exam in 2026?
Sunday 6 September 2026.