Feature Story
Health Center Today, March 18, 2011
Medical School Class of 2011 Achieves Highest Match Rate in Recent Years
By Carolyn Pennington
Graduates of the medical school class of 2011 secured a match rate at their top choice residencies of 98.8 percent, compared to a national match rate this year of 94.1 percent.
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Match Day was a great success for students at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine as 98.8 percent secured residencies through the National Residency Match Program. The national average is 94.1 percent.
“There are a lot of metrics used to rank and evaluate educational institutions but the measures that matter most are outcomes and one of the most important outcomes is the ability of graduates to pursue their dreams,” says Dr. David Henderson, associate dean of medical student affairs. “So judging by these results, UConn and the class of 2011 have been extremely successful.”
Primary care residency programs, which include internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics, accounted for 35 percent of the students. Emergency medicine, radiology/diagnostic and psychiatry were the top three programs for the remaining 65 percent of students. The majority of the class, 61 of the 81 students, will stay in the Northeast, with 29 remaining in Connecticut.
Match Day is conducted annually at medical schools across the country to match students with residency programs and fill the available training positions at teaching hospitals around the country.
Dr. David Henderson, associate dean of medical student affairs, talks with fourth-year medical student Chika Anekwe after learning she’ll be doing her pediatric residency at New York University School of Medicine.
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Fourth-year medical student Mona Shahriari of New Haven (left) is overjoyed after finding out she has been accepted into the UConn Dermatology residency program - her first choice.
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Fourth-year medical students opening their envelopes to find out what residency program they’ve been accepted into during Match Day 2011.
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Match Day 2011 – an emotional day for UConn medical students.
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Match Day 2011.
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Fourth-year medical student Neena Qasba opening her envelope to find she was matched to an obstetrics-gynecology residency program at Indiana University School of Medicine.
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