Match Day

 Credit: Anita Bilan/UCLA

Class of 2019

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Match Day is when medical students all over the country rip open their envelope to learn where they have been accepted for residency. Since this is the next phase of their training as physicians, this is quite the big deal. This year, 40,000 individuals applied for 30,000 residency slots across the country. Nationwide, 85 percent were matched with one of their top three choices. At UCLA, the number is expected to be higher.

• 87 students, or nearly 60 percent of the class, will devote themselves to primary care, which includes internal/family medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology.
• 23 budding surgeons
• 18 rising psychiatrists
• 9 future emergency medicine physicians
• 5 anesthesiologists and 5 dermatologists in training

• 75% of the class will train in California
• 30% of the class will train in the University of California system
• 35 trainees of the class will stay in the UCLA family, including UCLA and its affiliates