Athens
Mar 15, 2024
Perfect again: Medical Partnership celebrates 100 percent match rate
Medical Partnership achieves 100 percent match rate for second year in a row
The sound of ripping envelopes echoed through George Hall at noon on March 15 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 will be pursuing his or her postgraduate medical education.
“We have had a decade of Match Days here at the Medical Partnership, and we are pleased to announce that every student from the Class of 2024 matched into a residency program,” said campus dean, Dr. Shelley Nuss. “This is the second year in a row we have celebrated a perfect match rate.”
An annual event, Match Day 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, at the same time the 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 that aligns the choices of the applicants with those of the residency programs. Most students were matched via the NRMP, but some students participated in smaller match programs, including ophthalmology. The final pairings are announced simultaneously across the U.S. at noon on Match Day.
“The accomplishments of these 50 MCG students have landed them at top-tier residency programs across the nation,” said 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.”
The students will be going to 22 different states plus Washington D.C in 19 different specialties, with 58 percent staying in the southern United States, and 54 percent joining primary/core care programs. Thirteen will begin their residency career in Georgia.
Some of the most popular specialties from the Medical Partnership Class of 2024 included family medicine (7), internal medicine (5), ophthalmology (4), and OB-GYN (4).
AU/UGA Medical Partnership participants in Match Day 2024 received the following residency appointments. They are listed by name, residency institution, and specialty:
