Medical students awaiting Match Day

The nation will get a good look this week at the future faces of medicine. Friday is Match Day, the high-pressure equivalent of Draft Day in professional sports, when medical school seniors find out where they will be doing their residency training. Students found out Monday whether they matched at all. After last year's match, there were 528 seniors who did not initially land a slot. Physician organizations and others have cited this as evidence that the nation faces a shortage of residencies and that Congress should boost graduate medical education funding.

Last year, 18,156 U.S. medical school graduates vied for 26,392 first-year positions. Roughly 48% of those residency positions were for the primary-care specialties of family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.

Source: Modern Healthcare