University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford Announces Residency Matches for Graduating Medical Students
Medical students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford and across the nation found out where they will spend the next three to seven years of their medical training on Match Day, Friday, March 15.
Fifty students from the Class of 2024 at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford matched into residency programs in 19 specialties in 16 different states. Forty-eight percent of the Rockford students matched into primary care specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. Fifteen students will stay in Illinois for their residency programs.
“Few days compare to the excitement of Match Day in a medical student’s journey,” says Alex Stagnaro-Green, MD, MHPE, MHA, Rockford regional dean. “In Rockford, we start with a class breakfast and a toast to the students at Anderson Japanese Gardens. The students then come back to campus where their family, friends, faculty, staff and other medical students are gathered together to find out where this class will be headed for residencies around the nation.”
See the Match List at https://go.uic.edu/RockfordMatch.
The National Resident Matching Program, or “The Match,” is a private, non-profit organization established in 1952 at the request of medical students to provide an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors.