Seniors at New York Medical College (NYMC) School of Medicine (SOM), along with graduating medical students across the nation, learned recently where they were matched to medical residency programs and will continue their training for the next several years in their chosen specialty. Conducted annually by the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP), the Match uses a computer algorithm to match the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency programs, to fill the available training positions at U.S. teaching hospitals. This year”™s match was the largest in NRMP”™s 70-year history, with a record number 42,952 applicants who certified a rank order list (active applicants) and 40,375 certified positions.
The Class of 2023 will go on to train in 25 states at 103 different institutions, including several of New York Medical College”™s major clinical affiliated sites: Westchester Medical Center and NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan as well as clinical affiliated sites, NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, Greenwich Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital and Landmark Medical Center. NYMC students also matched at academic medical centers across the country, including Beth Israel-Deaconess of the Harvard Medical School, Brown, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Weil Cornell, New York University, Tufts, UCLA and Yale.
The top career choices for the Class of 2023 were internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, anesthesiology, radiology, obstetrics and gynecology and neurology.
Members of the SOM administration offered their congratulations during the Match Day ceremony. “Today is the day you”™ve been waiting for, the day you find out where you”™ll be continuing your education and training. And, let”™s be honest, it”™s also the day you”™ll finally stop refreshing your inbox every five seconds,” said Jane Ponterio, M.D. ”™81, SOM dean of students.
Founded in 1860, New York Medical College is one of the oldest and largest health sciences colleges in the country with nearly 1,500 students and 330 residents and clinical fellows, more than 2,600 faculty members and 23,200 living alumni.
