diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/8_4_0/7059-add-resourceType-to-MdmSubmitJobParameters.yml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/8_4_0/7059-add-resourceType-to-MdmSubmitJobParameters.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3527f5abb0ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/8_4_0/7059-add-resourceType-to-MdmSubmitJobParameters.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+type: change
+issue: 7059
+title: "Added support for optional resourceType scoping in MDM_SUBMIT job parameters."
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-mdm/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/mdm/svc/MdmControllerSvcImpl.java b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-mdm/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/mdm/svc/MdmControllerSvcImpl.java
index d65ed708cdee..cb023b150e3d 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-mdm/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/mdm/svc/MdmControllerSvcImpl.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-mdm/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/mdm/svc/MdmControllerSvcImpl.java
@@ -361,6 +361,9 @@ public IBaseParameters submitMdmSubmitJob(
 		if (hasBatchSize) {
 			params.setBatchSize(theBatchSize.getValue().intValue());
 		}
+		if (theRequestDetails.getResourceName() != null) {
+			params.setResourceNames(List.of(theRequestDetails.getResourceName()));
+		}
 		RequestPartitionId partitionId = RequestPartitionId.allPartitions();
 		theUrls.forEach(
 				url -> params.addPartitionedUrl(new PartitionedUrl().setUrl(url).setRequestPartitionId(partitionId)));
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-mdm/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/mdm/svc/MdmControllerSvcImplTest.java b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-mdm/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/mdm/svc/MdmControllerSvcImplTest.java
index 9b0736591e66..18d4816af9dc 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-mdm/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/mdm/svc/MdmControllerSvcImplTest.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-mdm/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/mdm/svc/MdmControllerSvcImplTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.mdm.svc;
 
+import ca.uhn.fhir.batch2.model.JobInstance;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.interceptor.api.IInterceptorService;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.interceptor.model.RequestPartitionId;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.entity.MdmLink;
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@
 import ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.api.paging.MdmPageRequest;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.api.params.MdmQuerySearchParameters;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.batch2.clear.MdmClearStep;
+import ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.batch2.submit.MdmSubmitJobParameters;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.model.MdmTransactionContext;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.model.mdmevents.MdmLinkJson;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.rules.config.MdmSettings;
@@ -21,6 +23,7 @@
 import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.exceptions.ResourceVersionConflictException;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.interceptor.partition.RequestTenantPartitionInterceptor;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.servlet.ServletRequestDetails;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBaseParameters;
 import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IPrimitiveType;
 import org.hl7.fhir.r4.model.DecimalType;
@@ -224,4 +227,23 @@ public boolean matches(RequestPartitionId theRequestPartitionId) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void testSubmitMdmSubmitJobUsesResourceNameFromRequestDetails() throws Exception {
+		assertLinkCount(1);
+
+		List<String> urls = List.of("Patient?_id=*");
+		IPrimitiveType<BigDecimal> batchSize = new DecimalType(new BigDecimal(50));
+		ServletRequestDetails details = new ServletRequestDetails();
+		details.setResourceName("Patient");
+
+		IBaseParameters result = myMdmControllerSvc.submitMdmSubmitJob(urls, batchSize, details);
+		String jobId = ((StringType) ((Parameters) result).getParameterValue("jobId")).getValueAsString();
+
+		JobInstance instance = myBatch2JobHelper.awaitJobCompletion(jobId);
+
+		ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+		MdmSubmitJobParameters submitParams = mapper.readValue(instance.getParameters(), MdmSubmitJobParameters.class);
+
+		assertThat(submitParams.getResourceNames()).containsExactly("Patient");
+	}
 }
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-storage-mdm/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/mdm/batch2/submit/MdmSubmitJobParameters.java b/hapi-fhir-storage-mdm/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/mdm/batch2/submit/MdmSubmitJobParameters.java
index fc907820b704..c1fc57998d41 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-storage-mdm/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/mdm/batch2/submit/MdmSubmitJobParameters.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-storage-mdm/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/mdm/batch2/submit/MdmSubmitJobParameters.java
@@ -20,5 +20,34 @@
 package ca.uhn.fhir.mdm.batch2.submit;
 
 import ca.uhn.fhir.batch2.jobs.parameters.PartitionedUrlJobParameters;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
+import jakarta.annotation.Nonnull;
+import jakarta.validation.constraints.Pattern;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate;
 
-public class MdmSubmitJobParameters extends PartitionedUrlJobParameters {}
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class MdmSubmitJobParameters extends PartitionedUrlJobParameters {
+	@JsonProperty("resourceType")
+	@Nonnull
+	private List<@Pattern(regexp = "^[A-Z][A-Za-z]+$", message = "If populated, must be a valid resource type'") String>
+			myResourceNames;
+
+	public List<String> getResourceNames() {
+		if (myResourceNames == null) {
+			myResourceNames = new ArrayList<>();
+		}
+		return myResourceNames;
+	}
+
+	public MdmSubmitJobParameters addResourceType(@Nonnull String theResourceName) {
+		Validate.notNull(theResourceName);
+		getResourceNames().add(theResourceName);
+		return this;
+	}
+
+	public void setResourceNames(@Nonnull List<String> theResourceNames) {
+		myResourceNames = theResourceNames;
+	}
+}