Medical Students Learn Residency Assignments on Match Day
Fourth-year medical students around the country, including 146 at Albany Medical College, learned where they will continue their medical training today. The event, called Match Day, is a career-defining moment in a medical student’s life.
Thirty-two Albany Medical College students have chosen to continue their training within the Albany Med Health System. Forty-nine students were matched to programs in New York State. Twenty-two percent of this year’s class will pursue primary care specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine, medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology.
“Match Day marks a significant milestone in a medical student’s journey, when years of dedication, passion, and resilience culminate to launch the next phase of their medical careers,” said Alan S. Boulos, MD, ’94, The Lynne and Mark D. Groban, MD, ’67 Distinguished Dean of Albany Medical College. “We are immensely proud of our students’ accomplishments and are confident they will become exceptional skilled and compassionate physicians. It is particularly gratifying that more than twenty percent of this year’s class has chosen the Albany Med Health System to continue their journey, and we warmly welcome all 128 new residents joining us from across the country this July."
The day was especially significant for Dean Boulos and his family as his son, Mateo, learned he will begin his residency training in diagnostic radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Fourth-year medical students apply to several residency programs while residency programs rank the students they have interviewed. Students and programs are then “matched” by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
The Albany Med Health System successfully filled residency positions in programs participating in the Match including anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, family medicine Saratoga Hospital, general surgery, preliminary surgery, internal medicine, preliminary medicine, medicine/pediatrics, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic surgery, psychiatry, radiology, integrated vascular radiology, and vascular surgery. Urology and ophthalmology also successfully filled positions in the separate SF Match.
After graduating from medical school, physicians enter residency programs for an additional three to seven years of training. Albany Medical College’s commencement will take place Thursday, May 7 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Residency assignments begin in July.
