UW med student 2025 residency match results in
Graduating medical students across the nation recently learned where they will pursue residency training.Media Contact: Kim Blakeley, krb13@uw.edu
Last week, nearly 250 fourth-year students at the University of Washington School of Medicine joined their peers nationally in learning where they will spend the next three to seven years training in U.S. residency programs.
University of Washington medical students typically do very well in the annual Match Day event, which fell on Friday, March 21 this year. All participating UW students from across the WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) successfully matched into residencies in 26 medical specialties across 36 states.
Primary-care specialists are much needed in the physician workforce. Close to 50 percent of the UW medical students matched into primary care residencies: family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics.
Students apply to residency programs at the beginning of their last year of medical school. In turn, residency program directors rank applicants. A match occurs when a program accepts a student’s application.
Match Day was developed by the National Residency Matching Program, a U.S.-based private nonprofit, nongovernmental organization created in 1952 to place U.S. medical school students into residency training programs. The 2025 match was the largest in the National Residency Matching Program’s 73-year history with more than 52,000 registered applicants competing for 43,237 residency positions.
See more photos from the UW School of Medicine Match Day celebration on Facebook.
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