National Resident Matching Program 2001
IU Med Students Prepare For Residencies
INDIANAPOLIS - And when the last envelope was opened, the mystery and wait were over: all 260 graduating Indiana University School of Medicine students accepted residency positions across the country.
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MATCH
DAY 2001. Jeremy Roscoe celebrates after learning he will do
a pediatrics residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
He was among 260 students matched at the March 22 event. Roscoe,
whose envelope was selected last, also took home a bonus of $259,
thanks to his fellow students. It has become the practice for each
student to leave a dollar bill in a bed pan after receiving his
or her residency assignment. Photo by Rocky Rothrock,
IU School of Medicine students ranked well in National Match Day, March 22, a program that 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 Association of American Medical Colleges.
The program, held each year the third week of March, is the primary route by which most students enter their residency training under the tutelage of well-seasoned physicians.
"Almost two-thirds of the IU School of Medicine Class of 2001 received their first choice of programs," notes Dennis Deal, director of Academic Records-Medical Student Academic Affairs. "As is always the case, a few students did not initially match with their selected programs, but within hours after learning this, all of those students secured first-year residency positions."
Students in Class of 2001 accepted positions in 31 states, including Indiana.
Among the IU School of Medicine Match Day 2000 highlights:
- 49 percent of the students will pursue their first year of residency within Indiana.
- 75 students will be residents at IU Hospital, Riley Hospital for Children and other
- 48.6 percent of IUSM graduates will enter primary-care residency programs, which includes internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, primary and combined internal medicine-pediatrics.
- 62.8 percent of IUSM applicants were matched to their first choice,
- 12.3 percent matched to their second, and 7.1 percent got their third choice.
Clarian Health facilities.
Nationally, the NRMP reports that 93.7 percent, or 13,542, received a first-year residency training position. Of all the matches to first- and second-year programs, 85 percent were one of the students' first three choices of U.S. medical schools, down 1 percent compared to last year.
Additional information about Match Day 2001 and the National Resident Matching Program can be found at http://www.nrmp.org.
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