{"id":13153,"date":"2020-03-20T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=13153"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:31:01","slug":"match-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2020\/match-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Day\u2014A Medical School Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3iVAzTsu-c?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/body><\/html>\n\n<p>On Match Day, thousands of fourth-year medical students across the U.S simultaneously learn where they will start their residency training after graduation. For medical students, the annual event is one of the most anticipated, exciting, and emotional days of their medical education. And each medical school has its own tradition of handing out the all-important letters to relay the news.<\/p>\n<p>This year, in compliance with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding social gatherings to limit the spread of COVID-19, many medical schools across the U.S., including Geisel, have changed their Match Day celebration. For Geisel, today\u2019s Match was delivered at noon via email from the school\u2019s Clinical Education Office to our 88 graduating medical students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s Match Day celebration was bittersweet as we weren\u2019t able to celebrate our news all together in our originally shared vision,\u201d says Myriam Taibi \u201920. \u201cAnd yet we flourished\u2014from the sweet social media posts, texts, and videos by classmates, we were able to tune in online and celebrate each other\u2019s results virtually together. I am so excited for everyone\u2019s next adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all would have preferred to celebrate with our graduating students in a more formal manner.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this is not the Match Day celebration that any of us had anticipated, but it does not diminish the wonderful accomplishments of the Class of 2020,\u201d says Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. \u201cThese students have put in a tremendous amount of work to reach this day, and it is exciting to see them matching into some of the top residency training programs in the country. I\u2019d also like to recognize our faculty and staff who dedicate themselves to helping our students reach their goals.\"<\/p>\n<p>Medical students submit their residency choices via a computer program managed by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)\u2014residency programs also submit lists of applicants in order of preference. The lists are then compared against each other utilizing the NRMP\u2019s computer algorithm, matching students to their residency program. This year, a record number\u201440,084 U.S. and international medical students and graduates\u2014vied for 37,256 residency positions, the most ever offered since the first national Match in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Primary care was the most popular specialty choice among Geisel students, which includes residencies in family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine-primary care, and pediatrics. General surgery and emergency medicine were the next most popular specialties. This year, California, Massachusetts, and New York remained the most popular destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Geisel\u2019s class of 2020 will start their residencies at some of the most prestigious programs in the U.S., including Harvard\/Brigham &amp; Women\u2019s Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Class of 2020! Check out our slideshow video highlighting where the class matched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Match Day thousands of fourth-year medical students across the U.S simultaneously learn where they will start their residency training after graduation. For medical students, the annual event is one of the most anticipated, exciting, and emotional days of their medical education. 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