WVU graduating medical students learn their residency placements

West Virginia University’s graduating medical students will span 21 states for their residency placements, with 43% of the class remaining in West Virginia. The placement announcements were made as part of the University’s Match Day celebration, Friday, March 17.

Match Day is a national celebration where medical students learn in which U.S. residency programs they will train for the next three to seven years. For WVU’s School of Medicine, the celebration unites more than 108 students, families, faculty members and friends on the Morgantown, Charleston and Eastern campuses as they unveil their “match.”

For students, the Residency Match process begins in the final year of medical school, when they apply to the residency training programs of their choice. Following interviews at programs across the country, applicants and program directors rank each other in order of preference and submit those lists to the National Resident Matching Program, which processes them using a computerized mathematical algorithm to “match” them.

 Stats for the Class of 2023 include:

• Students placed in 21 different specialties across 21 states.
• Fifty-five percent of students matched in primary care specialties.
• The top three specialties include internal medicine, followed by family medicine and pediatrics.
• For a complete list of Matches, visit go.wvu.edu/WVUMatchDay.

“Our graduating medical students make for exceptional residents and today is a celebration of their hard work but also for their journey ahead,” Norman Ferrari, M.D., chief academic officer and vice dean for medical education for the Doctorate of Medicine program, said.

There were 48,156 total applicants registered in the 2023 Main Residency Match, an increase of 481 applicants over last year.

WVU has the largest number of graduate medical education offerings in the state, with 77 specialty training programs. One-half of those training programs are the only such specialty programs offered in the entire state.

Residency training begins at WVU in July for residents from medical schools across the country.

For more information on the School of Medicine, visit medicine.wvu.edu.

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CONTACT: Cassie Thomas, WVU School of Medicine
304.293.3412; cassie.thomas@hsc.wvu.edu