Upstate Medical students match with residency assignments

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — More than 150 fourth-year students from Upstate Medical University’s College of Medicine know where they will spend the first year of training, or residency, in their chosen specialty.

The medical school held its Match Day last Friday, which is describes as an “annual rite of passage,” per a university news release.

National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) of the Association of American Medical Colleges established the event in 1952 as an “orderly and fair way” to match the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the residency program’s choice of applicants.

The class match rate was 100 percent, Upstate Medical said.

“All of our 2019 graduating medical students have secured a residency-training position — this 100 percent success rate is unprecedented and reflects the high quality of our graduating students and of our College of Medicine. Moreover, several of our students matched to Upstate and to some of the country’s leading academic medical centers,” Dr. Julio Licinio, executive dean and dean of the College of Medicine, boasted in the release.

Residency data

Upstate Medical University provided a breakdown of the residency assignments of the 153 medical students involved.

Of that group, 84 medical students (55 percent of the class) will enter the primary-care specialties, including family medicine, psychiatry, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology.

In addition, 72 medical students (47 percent of the class) will remain in New York.

Of that group, 22 medical students will remain in Syracuse, including 12 for full residency and three for preliminary year at Upstate University Hospital and six for full residency and one for preliminary year at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center.

Three medical students matched in the military, Upstate Medical added.

At the same time, Upstate University Hospital must also fill its own residency positions. Upstate’s graduate medical education office said that Upstate filled all of its 162 resident positions, including six residency spots in Upstate’s new family-medicine residency.

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