Class of 2000 Hits 100% On Match Day

The wait is over for 261 graduating Indiana University School of Medicine students who have accepted their first jobs as residents at hospitals throughout the country.

IUSM students did well in National Match Day, which coordinates thousands of medical students' and U.S. hospital programs' preferences. During their senior year, students apply and interview for residency positions across the country; their selection is administered through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

"I was delighted with the results of the match, with both the number of students who matched to their first choice and the quality of the programs our students will be training at," says Herbert Cushing, MD, acting associate dean for medical student academic affairs. "I'm sure the residency program directors will be happy with the IUSM graduates."

"More than two-thirds of the Class of 2000 received their first choice of programs," notes Dennis Deal, director of academic records- medical student academic affairs. "As always, a few students did not initially match, but within hours of learning this, all of those students accepted residency positions they were offered."

* 47 percent graduating IUSM students will pursue their first year of residency in Indiana.

* 82 will be residents in IUSM programs at IU Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children.

* 49.4 percent will enter primary care residency programs (internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics and combined internal medicine-pediatrics and obstetrics/ gynecology).

* 66.7 percent matched to their first choice, 14.9 percent to their second, and 5.9 percent to their third. Students in the IUSM Class of 2000 accepted positions in 31 states.