Photo Op: It’s Match Day for UAB Medical Students – Decision Made on Residency Training and Specialty

UAB School of Medicine seniors find out where they will be conducting their residency training and in what field on Match Day, coordinated by the National Resident Matching Program. Approximately 16,000 graduates from U.S. medical schools, along with 15,000 graduates from osteopathic or foreign medical schools, are competing for approximately 24,000 residency positions at U.S. hospitals. UAB will have 162 graduates participating in the match.

March 15, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - UAB School of Medicine seniors find out where they will be conducting their residency training and in what field on Match Day, coordinated by the National Resident Matching Program. Approximately 16,000 graduates from U.S. medical schools, along with 15,000 graduates from osteopathic or foreign medical schools, are competing for approximately 24,000 residency positions at U.S. hospitals. UAB will have 162 graduates participating in the match.

The event will be Thursday, March 18 in Volker Hall, Lecture Room A.  Media crews should enter the building at the Seventh Avenue entrance at 17th Street, across from Children's Hospital. Go up the outside staircase to the plaza level.  Live streaming video of Match Day proceedings at UAB can be viewed online at http://medicine.uab.edu/matchday/.

Following graduation from medical school, new physicians spend at least three years in a residency program, receiving advanced training in their chosen field. Fourth-year medical school students across the country apply to their desired residency programs through the National Resident Matching Program and receive their acceptances on Match Day, begun in 1952.

In addition to graduates of accredited U.S. medical schools, some 15,000 independent graduates will participate. Independent applicants include former graduates of U.S. medical schools, U.S. osteopathic students and graduates of foreign medical schools.