It's a Match.
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 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.
50,413 total applicants registered in the 2024 Main Residency Match
What they'll do.
The Class of 2024 will go on to specialize in anesthesiology, child neurology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, radiation oncology, radiology, transitional year, urology and vascular surgery.
Where They’ll Go.
Students placed in 23 different specialties across 24 states plus Washington, D.C.
West Virginia was the highest-matched state. Second was North Carolina and Pennsylvania and Florida tied for third.
Students matched across three time zones, with the furthest matching being in Utah.
Students placed in 23 specialties across 24 states + Washington, D.C.
Charleston and Eastern Celebrations
Students celebrated across the state, in Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg.
View the article on Charleston's Match Day celebration.
View an article about Eastern's Match Day celebration.
