Match Day 2025
It's a Match.
Match Day is a national celebration where medical students learn in which U.S. residency programs they will train for the next three to seven years.
For students, the Residency Match process begins in the final year of medical school, when they apply to the residency training programs of their choice.
Following interviews at programs across the country, applicants and program directors rank each other in order of preference and submit those lists to the National Resident Matching Program, which processes them using a computerized mathematical algorithm to “match” them.
52,498 total applicants registered in the 2025 Main Residency Match
What they'll do.
The Class of 2025 will go on to specialize in anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, medicine/pediatrics, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, radiation oncology, radiology, transitional year, and vascular surgery.
50% of the cohort will enter primary care fields in the areas of internal medicine, family medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology and pediatrics.
Where They’ll Go.
Students placed in 19 specialties across 22 states.
West Virginia was the highest-matched state. Second was North Carolina followed by Ohio.
Fifty percent of the cohort will enter primary care fields in the areas of internal medicine, family medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology and pediatrics.
48% of the class will remain in West Virginia for residency.
Charleston and Eastern Celebrations
Students celebrated across the state, in Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg.
View the article on Charleston's Match Day celebration.
View an article about Eastern's Match Day celebration.
