{"id":56593,"date":"2012-03-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=56593"},"modified":"2013-10-11T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:34:21","slug":"successful-match-day-for-uconn-medical-school-class-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/03\/successful-match-day-for-uconn-medical-school-class-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Match Day for UConn Medical School Class of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 18px 0\">[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PCtoTqG-Fjc&amp;feature=youtu.be&#8217;]<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pull-right w33\">\n<h2>Photo Gallery<\/h2>\n<p>See more photos from Match Day on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconntoday\/sets\/72157629619120411\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr. David Henderson, associate dean of medical student affairs, told the students, \u201cThis is, from an institutional perspective, a most excellent Match Day. With nearly a 99 percent match rate, it\u2019s about as close to perfect as you can get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medicine, obstetrics\/gynecology, orthopaedic surgery and general surgery were the top programs for the remaining 50 percent of students.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the class, 56 of the 88 students, will stay in the Northeast, with 27 remaining in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students worked really hard and accomplished a lot these past several years and we\u2019re very pleased with the results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-year students celebrated after learning 98.8 percent of them secured residencies compared to the national average of 95.1 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":56596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-56593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 06:34:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84648,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56593\/revisions\/84648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/56596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56593"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=56593"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}