During Match Day Friday, 128 students of the UNMC College of Medicine learned where they will do their physician residency training — typically a period of three to six years of training depending on their chosen medical specialty.
Forty percent of UNMC students are staying in Nebraska for their training, and 64 percent matched in primary care, which includes family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology.
See a photo album from Match Day.
“For a lot of people in the class it’s almost more important than graduation, because it’s when we find out that we get to do the sort of medicine that we want to do and we’re going to have a place to go next year, so it’s a really important day for everybody,” said Dan Arkfeld, a UNMC medical student from Omaha.
“It feels good to move on to the next step, but they say that residency is harder than medical school,” Arkfeld said. “But I think you have more purpose in residency, because you’re more focused on what you’re doing and you’re finally taking care of patients and taking more responsibility than we have as students, so it’s really exciting.”
Students are matched through a computer program to align their preferences for residency programs in order to fill the thousands of training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals.
The National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®), or The Match®, is a private, non-profit organization that provides an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors.
The UNMC medical students, slated to graduate May 4, are listed here with their residency matches.
Wonderful and Well Done future doctors 🙂