Medical Partnership
Mar 21, 2025
Medical Partnership celebrates 12th Match Day
70% of the class will be going into primary care and core specialties
The sound of ripping envelopes echoed through George Hall at noon on Friday, March 21, as fourth-year students at the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership opened their letters for Match Day.
Inside each envelope was a personal letter revealing where the student would be pursuing their postgraduate medical education.
“This is our twelfth Match Day at the Medical Partnership, and we are so proud of this class. We are so excited to see all the amazing achievements each of you will accomplish during your careers,” said Dean Shelley Nuss. “Thank you to the faculty, administrators, staff, and physician mentors in our community who have devoted their time and efforts to educating our future physicians.”
Match Day is an annual event that takes place after students participate in interviews and visits to residency programs in Georgia and across the country. To determine the post-graduation assignments, the students ranked residency programs where they would like to complete their training, and residency programs ranked the student applicants. The lists are then submitted to the nonprofit organization National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) in Washington, D.C., which uses an algorithm to align the choices of the applicants with those of the residency programs. Most students were matched via the NRMP, but some participated in smaller match programs, including ophthalmology. The final pairings are announced simultaneously across the U.S. at noon on Match Day.
Students from the Class of 2025 will be going to 17 different states plus Washington D.C in 15 different specialties, with 65% percent staying in the southern United States. Seventy percent will be joining primary care/core specialty programs (defined by the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce as internal medicine, family medicine, OB-GYN, pediatrics, psychiatry, general surgery, and emergency medicine)—the highest in the history of the Medical Partnership.
“The accomplishments of these talented 46 students have landed them at top-tier residency programs across the nation, and 70% are going into primary care and core specialties, which is critical to combat our lingering physician shortage,” said Nuss.
The most popular specialties from the Medical Partnership Class of 2025 include internal medicine (15), psychiatry (6), family medicine (3), OB-GYN (3), pathology (3), and orthopedic surgery (3).
