Today at exactly 9 a.m. in Seattle, fourth-year med students joined their peers across the country in learning which residency programs will be their training sites for the next three to seven years.
On Match Day 2016, Friday, March 18, graduating medical students across the nation will simultaneously learn where they will be receiving their residency training.
The phrase ‘finding a match’ typically evokes the complicated world of dating. For graduating medical students across the country, matching means building a career and finding an academic home in a residency training program.