All UC Davis medical school graduates accepted into residency programs on “Match Day”

Ninety-one UC Davis School of Medicine students learned yesterday where in the United States they will be continuing their medical training over the next several years to become licensed to practice medicine in a particular specialty.

The placements are based on the computerized results of the National Resident Matching Program, which uses a computer algorithm to match the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency program directors to fill the available training positions at U.S. teaching hospitals.

At UC Davis, the majority of students (67 percent) will remain in California for training. About 15 percent will remain at UC Davis Medical Center. One third chose residencies in primary care, which includes family practice, general pediatrics and internal medicine.

The most popular choices of training programs among UC Davis graduates were emergency medicine (16.5 percent), internal medicine (13 percent), pediatrics (11 percent) and psychiatry (11 percent).

Michael Wilkes, Vice Dean for Education, said, “Our students have worked extremely hard and have accomplished an enormous amount and we are very proud of them. Society can expect great things from these soon-to-be doctors, not only in terms of their knowledge, but in terms of their focus on patients and communities.”

Nationally, more than 15,000 medical school seniors applied for residency positions through the NRMP.