{"id":8706,"date":"2025-03-21T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T00:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:04:02","slug":"match-day-reveals-postgraduate-paths-for-medical-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/match-day-reveals-postgraduate-paths-for-medical-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Day reveals postgraduate paths for medical students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Match Day reveals postgraduate paths for medical students<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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The Keck School of Medicine of USC\u2019s Class of 2025 achieved a 97.4% match rate for residency programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

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With the festive mood under clear, sunny skies of a Los\u00a0Angeles morning, an observer might not have guessed what hung in the balance for those assembled at USC\u2019s Health Sciences Campus. Members of the Keck School of Medicine of USC<\/a>\u2019s Class of 2025 gathered, with family and friends around them, to receive momentous news about the next step toward their careers in medicine.<\/p>\n

On March 21 this year, fourth-year medical students from across North America took part in a significant milestone known as Match Day. At 9 a.m. PDT on the dot, each student tore open an envelope containing the name of the program that will be their home for residency training. Prior to this moment, candidates had submitted applications to potential postgraduate specialties and destinations, ranking them in order of preference, through the National Resident Matching Program<\/a>. Everything is revealed on Match Day, which always falls on the third Friday of March.<\/p>\n