Newswise — The soon-to-be graduates of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University recently participated in a “rite of passage” at the institution’s first “Match Day” to learn where they will be spending the next several years of medical training as residents.
Results from Match Day revealed a 100 percent match for the study body, including numerous placements in top institutions such as Barnes-Jewish Hospital (Washington University), Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard University), New Haven Hospital (Yale University), Rhode Island Hospital (Brown University), Tufts Medical Center, University of Utah Hospitals, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Case Western/University Hospitals, Ohio State University Medical Center, Miami Children’s Hospital, University of Florida’s Shands Hospital, Orlando Health, and FAU College of Medicine (internal medicine) to name a few.
FAU’s inaugural class vied for extremely competitive positions that include neurosurgery, radiation oncology, radiology, emergency medicine, otolaryngology, obstetrics/gynecology, internal medicine, psychiatry, pathology, pediatrics, family medicine and anesthesiology.
Match Day occurs on the third Friday of March each year at allopathic (M.D.) medical schools in the United States where the results of the National Resident Matching Program are announced. The 2015 National Match Day was the largest ever, with 41,334 applicants vying for just 30,212 spots. Promptly at noon ET on March 20 during a ceremony at FAU’s College of Medicine, 52 students opened their sealed envelopes containing their residency match results at the same time as all graduating medical students across the country.
Leading up to the big day, each student lists in order of preference the residency program that he or she seeks to work with and each residency program then ranks its applicants in order of its own preferences. The National Resident Matching Program then uses a computer algorithm, developed in 1952 by Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth, to place students in the program that they prefer. Each residency program at a hospital has a fixed number of first-year positions that they can fill each year based on their accreditation.
FAU welcomed its inaugural class in August 2011, and now has a full enrollment of approximately 256 students (64 students per class). In July 2014, FAU welcomed its charter class of 36 residents in its first residency program in internal medicine. Future plans include the development of additional FAU residency programs to provide medical students with an opportunity to complete their specialty training locally. - FAU -
Florida Atlantic UniversityFlorida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
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