Internal medicine was once again the top match for Harvard Medical students as HMS joined medical schools across the country in Match Day ceremonies on March 16. Nearly 16,000 graduating U.S. medical school students learned where they will spend the next three to seven years for their residency training. At HMS, 147 students matched to residency programs across the country, with the greatest number, 41, matching in internal medicine. This year 44 percent of graduating HMS students are staying on to train at affiliate hospitals.
There were slight increases in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and urology matches at HMS, although nationwide internal medicine, anesthesiology, and emergency medicine saw the largest increases, according to the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). After two years of notable increases, family medicine positions increased by only slightly more than 1 percent this year nationally.
According to the NRMP, the top five most competitive fields—dermatology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, radiation oncology, thoracic surgery and vascular surgery—remained the same as last year.
The NRMP is a non-profit organization sponsored by several national medical societies to provide an orderly and fair way to match applicants to U.S. residency positions.
