Fourth-year students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine celebrated a successful Match Day on March 20 with 98 percent of them securing residencies through the National Residency Match Program.
As in years past, a large percentage of UConn students, 48 percent, matched in a primary care residency program which includes internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics. The majority of the class, 67 of the 89 students, will stay in the Northeast, with 21 remaining in Connecticut.
Match Day is conducted annually at medical schools across the country to match students with residency programs and at teaching hospitals around the country.