50 Peoria Medical Students Celebrate “Match Day”
The University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria held its Match Day event this morning at The Warehouse on State in Peoria, where 50 Peoria medical students opened their envelopes and learned where they will spend the next few years of their training. Following medical school graduation in May, the future physicians will begin their residency training in their specialty of choice. Residency training programs are three to seven years, depending on the area of specialization.
UICOMP students matched into 16 different specialties in 19 different states. Of the 50 students, 17 matched into programs in the state of Illinois with 9 students matching into Peoria residency programs. The most popular specialties for this year’s Peoria students were: Internal Medicine (9), Pediatrics (7), and Internal Medicine-Pediatrics (5).
On Match Day, fourth-year medical students nationwide learn where they will spend the next years training in residency programs as they continue their paths into medicine. Competition is tight as more than 44,000 applicants interviewed for 41,500 positions in the 2024 match, according to data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), the organization that administers the match.
The residency programs at UICOMP filled its 106 openings with fourth-year medical students from throughout the nation as part of the same match process. In Peoria, UICOMP’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) office administers residency programs in affiliation with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Carle Health Methodist and OSF Saint Joseph Medical Center. UICOMP offers 15 residency programs – Anesthesiology, two programs in Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Obstetrics-Gynecology, Pediatrics, Diagnostic Radiology, Interventional Radiology and Transitional Year.
