A total of 140 senior medical students at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska learned about their residency assignments on March 15, 2024, during an event at the Scott Conference Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Forty-one percent of UNMC students are staying in Nebraska for their training, with 56 of those at UNMC. Sixty-one percent matched in primary care, which includes family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine/geriatrics, internal medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology. Nationally, there were 41,503 residency positions.
Match Day is an annual rite of passage for medical students, a day when students across the country learn where they will train for the next three to seven years, depending on the medical area of their choice. 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.