University of Nevada School of Medicine
For immediate release: March 17, 2006
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University of Nevada School of Medicine students participate in National Residency Matching Program

Students continue tradition of placing in competitive residency training programs

RENO, Nev.—Fourth-year medical students from the University of Nevada School of Medicine have just learned where they will receive their residency training. Fifty-two students from the School of Medicine’s Class of 2005, along with about 16,000 other medical students across the nation, were notified of their official residency in the annual “Match Day” celebration on Thursday.

Nevada’s medical students continued their tradition of placing in some of the nation’s most competitive residency programs, including the Mayo Clinic, Tufts University and UCLA. Nevada’s medical students matched with 39 different residency institutions from across the nation and entered specialties ranging from internal medicine to orthopedic surgery.

Nine graduates will stay in the state to enter into residency programs offered through the University of Nevada School of Medicine. Nearly half of this year’s students matched with medical residency programs not currently offered within the state.

Additionally, three medical students received their match notification in advance of this week’s national “Match Day” celebration. These students participated in the San Francisco Match, which was developed to accommodate the most competitive of residency programs. Specialties in the San Francisco Match included: neurology, ophthalmology and plastic surgery.

“We’re very proud of the quality of our students, who year after year are selected for some of the country’s top residency programs,” said Dr. John McDonald, dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine and vice president for health sciences. “It’s also a testament to the outstanding teaching and support provided by our faculty. Match Day is a proud moment for all of us, and we all look forward to it every year with great excitement.”

Students are notified of their residency match by the National Resident Matching Program, a private, nonprofit corporation that provides an impartial venue for matching applicants’ program preferences by reviewing their individualized rank order lists. Due to the uniform date for decisions about residency selection for both applicants and programs, the national program eliminates the pressure that might otherwise fall upon applicants and programs to make decisions before all of their options are known.

For a full list of the University of Nevada School of Medicine’s residency match results, please visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.