Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Match Day Points Students to Career Beginnings

Eighty-five students poised to graduate this spring from the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine learned their matches to residency programs across the country on March 17. The soon-to-be graduates (commencement is planned for June 8) include students from the 2019 cohort who are completing the four-year track, and a contingent from the 2020 Cohort who are finishing their medical degree in three years, as part of the Phase 3-Residency (P3-R) option. Nearly all students in the P3-R group will assume residencies across the Hackensack Meridian Health network later this year. They are all among an estimated 44,000 who found out March 17 where they will “match” through the National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP).

“Match Day is always a thrill. It’s one of those validations of a chosen vocation, and there’s nothing like it.” -- Jeffrey Boscamp, M.D., president and dean of the School.

This is the third Match Day for Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, which received its full accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) last month. Students from the school have previously matched at some of the nation’s most competitive residency programs, including those at the Mayo Clinic, the University of Pennsylvania, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and others. Specialties have included psychiatry, emergency medicine, general surgery, anesthesiology, neurology and obstetrics/gynecology, among a wide range of other fields.