More than 16,000 U.S. allopathic medical school seniors matched into first-year residency positions Friday, according to the National Resident Marching Program's Match Day data.
A total of 25,687 people were successfully matched into first-year residency positions this year, for an overall match rate of 75 percent, the highest since 2006. Other than U.S. medical school seniors, other applicant groups include previous graduates, osteopathic graduates and students and students and graduates of international medical schools.
Match Day is when applicants learn which U.S. residency program they will train in for the next three to seven years.
Primary care specialty programs offered an increased number of positions for the 2014 match:
• Internal medicine programs offered 247 more positions this year than in 2013; 99.1 percent of the positions were filled
• Family medicine programs offered 72 more positions this year; 95.8 percent of positions were filled
• Pediatrics programs offered 24 more positions this year; 99.5 percent filled
This year's most competitive specialties — those that offered at least 50 positions and filled at least 90 percent with U.S. seniors — were the following:
• Neurological surgery
• Orthopedic surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Plastic surgery
• Radiation-oncology
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