About 400 graduating medical students at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey last Friday, March 16, learned where they will be serving their medical residencies, a tradition known as “Match Day.”
Students at UMDNJ and across the country “tore open envelopes that held the most important news of their budding medical careers: the locations of their first jobs as physicians,” UMDNJ said in a statement.
Altogether, 99.1 percent of the graduating medical students from UMDNJ’s New Jersey Medical School, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and School of Osteopathic Medicine who applied succeeded in securing post-graduate positions, compared to the national average of 95 percent. UMDNJ’s results include students from the School of Osteopathic Medicine, who participated in the osteopathic match program last month, and students who matched to residency programs related to their military service.
“I congratulate our graduating students on this exciting day,” said Denise V. Rodgers, MD, Interim President of UMDNJ. “The extremely high match rate achieved by our students is a testament to the caliber of education and the quality of students at UMDNJ.”
More than 135 of the UMDNJ students will remain in New Jersey for their residency training, including 93 who matched to UMDNJ programs. UMDNJ students also matched to such prestigious out-of-state programs as Yale University, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania and New York Presbyterian/Columbia University.
Nationally, more than 38,000 students from the United States, Canada and several other countries competed for just 26,772 residency positions announced today through the National Residency Match Program.
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