It’s Match Day for UNMC med students

The University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Baxter Arena will be alive with anticipation today. That’s when 131 UNMC senior medical students will find out where they will spend their residency training after graduating from medical school in May.

Students pin their residency locations in Omaha and around the country.

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 community can look for Match Day coverage in UNMC Today, on Flickr and on UNMC and College of Medicine social media channels. A recording of the Match Day event will be available in the days following the event.

Students can add to the occasion by tagging their own social posts to #UNMCMatch2022. Match Day reveal graphics are available on UNMC's Instagram page, and communications staff will document the day live on UNMC's Instagram page.

Today's Match Day participants include a former Husker football player, a former Yale art student, students who got married during medical school, students who had babies and at least three married couples who will "couples match," meaning they will find out if they receive residency assignments together.

"For my class and our loved ones, Match Day is one of those ‘benchmark’ moments," said Taylor Kratochvil, president of the class. "The event is an opportunity to reflect on the road that brought us here, recognize the many folks who have supported us and celebrate the adventures ahead. Particularly amidst the pandemic, our class is really just very excited to safely gather and spend time with each other."