| EVMS Match Day results are in |
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| Thursday, 18 March 2010 17:49 |
 Today, graduating medical students all over the country found out where they'll be doing their residencies. The 2010 Match was the largest on record, with 30,543 applicants. More than 16,000 of them were U.S. medical school seniors, and, consistent with tradition, the 100 new doctors coming out of Eastern Virginia Medical School celebrated in style.A photo album of images from the event is available on the EVMS Facebook page with additional shots posted to the EVMS Flickr gallery. See the entire Match resultsÂ
 or view the video.Residency encompasses the three (or more) years of training that is required before medical school graduates can become practicing physicians. The number of applicants this year is 655 more than last year and 3,800 more than 2006 with 73 more positions offered than last year.
Conducted annually by the National Resident Matching Program, the match is based on a computerized mathematical algorithm. The process is engineered to produce a best result by aligning the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency programs in order to fill the thousands of open training positions at U.S. teaching hospitals. |
| Last Updated on Monday, 19 April 2010 09:29 |
