Match Day 2025
From Medical Student to Resident,
One Envelope Away
What is Match Day?
Every third Friday of March, an event known as Match Day signifies one of the most pivotal moments in a medical student’s career. Nationwide, eager students simultaneously tear open envelopes that reveal where they matched for residency programs.
Matches are determined by a sophisticated algorithm from the National Resident Matching Program, which pairs medical students with residency placements—typically in hospitals—based on mutual rankings submitted by both students and programs.
For these students, it’s a major step as they embark on their next phase of training to become licensed physicians.
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2025 Match Day Recap
Pitt Med’s Class of 2025 had a 99% successful residency placement.
They’ll be embarking on their journeys across the United States. Fifty-one students are staying in Pennsylvania, with 41 of those having residencies in the UPMC network. The leading subspecialties for this year’s cohort are internal medicine, anesthesiology, psychiatry, pediatrics, general surgery and emergency medicine.
Alda Maria Gonzaga, professor of medicine and of pediatrics and associate dean for student affairs, said the School of Medicine is exceptionally proud that each student who applied to prestigious and competitive residences like neurosurgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, orthopaedics and urology, received a match. She added that a large portion of students applied for psychiatric residencies—all receiving a match at highly regarded institutions.
Where Our Students Are Going Next Year
*41 matches to UPMC
Class of 2025 Matches by Specialty
Graduating Medical Students*
2025 Match Day Photo Gallery
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