UAB has 88 and programs across MATCH 4 campuses GAME 220 new incoming The Class of 2017 celebrates Match Day residents matched to and looks ahead to residency training Match Day, the day graduating medical students learn where they will conduct their UAB programs in the residencies, is the culmination of a student’s medical school journey and the first step main Match into specialty training. It is a day filled with joy, relief, excitement, laughter, friends, and family. Here are a few facts and figures about the 2017 Match Day results. We spent the past four years studying for long hours and taking tests. It all comes MATCH DAY FACTS 98% of UAB medical 43% matched into a students matched with primary care field down to this moment, and it means so much. residency positions • Match Day occurs on the – Xavier Baldwin, M.D., University of North Carolina General Surgery match third Friday of March. In 2017, Match Day hit a record high with 35,969 U.S. and international medical school students and graduates vying for 31,757 residency positions. • The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) is a private, nonprofit EMERGENCY organization established MEDICINE PEDIATRICS in 1952 at the request 10 of medical students to provide an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the 24 preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency INTERNAL program directors. MEDICINE * All figures as of March 20, 2017 Students matched at 75 55 students will remain (Birmingham campus) • NRMP Matches use a institutions in 29 states in Alabama for the first computerized mathematical across the country year of residency algorithm to align the FAMILY preferences of applicants 38 MEDICINE with the preferences of (Huntsville campus) program directors in order 12 to fill training positions Top Residency Match Results available at U.S. teaching hospitals. Research on the 28 internal medicine 12 obstetrics and gynecology ANESTHESIOLOGY NRMP algorithm was a basis 24 pediatrics 6 anesthesiology for awarding the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. 18 general surgery 6 orthopaedic surgery 21 • On the Monday prior to 17 emergency medicine 5 each diagnostic radiology, Match Day, candidates find 17 family medicine psychiatry, and NEW RESIDENTS ENTERING out from the NRMP if (but not where) they matched. They UAB’S 5 LARGEST must wait until Match Day to RESIDENCY PROGRAMS learn where they matched. JULY 2017