Credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins med students learn their residency destinations
Graduating medical students celebrated with family and friends on Match Day, when they were given the location of their future residency training
On March 21, more than 47,000 medical students from around the world—including 113 studying at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine—celebrated Match Day, a rite of passage when future doctors find out where they will continue their education as residents.
The mood was festive as family, friends, faculty, and staff gathered in the second-floor atrium of the Armstrong Medical Education Building to watch students open letters revealing where where they had been paired among 6,626 residency programs by the National Resident Matching Program. Thirty-six JHU students (32% of the graduating class) are staying at Hopkins for their residencies. The top specialties among JHU's matching students were internal medicine (18), anesthesiology (9), general surgery (8), and OB/GYN (8). This year's match rate for Hopkins was 100%.
