Fourth-year students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine celebrated a successful Match Day on March 16 with 98.8 percent of them securing residencies through the National Residency Match Program. The national average was 95.1 percent this year.
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Dr. David Henderson, associate dean of medical student affairs, told the students, “This is, from an institutional perspective, a most excellent Match Day. With nearly a 99 percent match rate, it’s about as close to perfect as you can get.”
Fifty percent of the students were matched in a primary care residency program which includes internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics, compared to 35 percent last year.
Emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopaedic surgery and general surgery were the top programs for the remaining 50 percent of students.
The majority of the class, 56 of the 88 students, will stay in the Northeast, with 27 remaining in Connecticut.
“The students worked really hard and accomplished a lot these past several years and we’re very pleased with the results.”
Match Day is conducted annually at medical schools across the country to match students with residency programs and fill the available training positions at teaching hospitals around the country.
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