More Einstein Seniors Choose Primary Care Residencies at 2011 Match Day
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Forty-three percent of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University's class of 2011 will be going into primary care - 4 percent higher than the national average of nearly 39 percent. Fourth-year medical students at Einstein - and at medical schools around the country - learned today where and in what specialty they will spend their three to seven years of residency training. The much-anticipated annual event, known as Match Day, has been a rite of passage for medical students for nearly six decades, since the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) was established in 1952. This year's Match, with 16,559 U.S. medical school seniors applying, represents the largest Match to date.