One of the most important days in a medical student’s journey occurred this year on March 17. PCOM Georgia’s fourth year medical students learned where they matched into residency programs and where they’ll spend their next three to seven years training in a specialty.
Leading up to the National Resident Matching Program© or The Match©, students decided on their specialty of choice, interviewed, and ranked programs of interest. In turn, following interviews with students, residency program directors ranked their choices and a complex algorithm aligned the students and programs.
According to Tina Woodruff, senior advisor to the provost, PCOM Georgia students achieved a 100% placement rate into postgraduate positions, while students from PCOM South Georgia in Moultrie and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine also achieved a 100% placement rate.
33% of students to complete residencies in Georgia
According to residency placement lists, 34% of PCOM Georgia’s students will stay in Georgia to complete their residency programs. This percentage is an 85% increase in students staying in Georgia to complete residencies since 2016.
Students matched to such programs as anesthesiology at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, emergency medicine at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, family medicine at Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Houston Healthcare in Warner Robins and Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center in Marietta.
They also matched to programs including interventional radiology at Emory School of Medicine, pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia, psychiatry at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta and Piedmont Macon Medical Center in Macon, and surgery at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.
74% of PCOM Georgia students match to core specialty programs
Forty nine percent of PCOM Georgia students matched to primary care specialties including family medicine, internal medicine,…
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