Yale School of Medicine Celebrates Match Day

On March 21, 2025—Match Day— 87 Yale School of Medicine (YSM) MD and MD dual/joint degree students, who will graduate in May, learned where they will spend their residency, after years of preparation in the classroom, on clinical rotations, and conducting research. Nationally, Match results were publicly released at 12 p.m. (ET).

Students, faculty, staff, family, and friends gathered late morning in YSM’s Harkness Ballroom. Although cold, windy weather moved the Match envelope distribution plans inside, it did not impact the atmosphere of excited anticipation. “It is always a high point of the year to celebrate with our medical students as they learn where they will be for the next phase of their training in residency programs across the country,” says Jessica Illuzzi, MD, MS, deputy dean for education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and professor of obstetrics, gynecology & reproductive sciences.

A few minutes before noon, each student received their sealed Match envelope from the head of their advisory house, and then joined in an energetic thirty second communal countdown to noon, at which time Jean and David W. Wallace Dean and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine Nancy J. Brown, MD, rang a cow bell. The students then eagerly opened their envelopes, and joyful shouts erupted as students, together with their families, friends, and loved ones, learned where they matched. This was followed by lots of hugging, excited chatter, and students posing with (filled in!) “I Matched! in ____ at ____” signs and placing pushpins on a giant map of the United States, showing where they would spend the next few years in residency.

Associate Dean for Student Affairs John Francis, MD, PhD, says he was “wowed,” once again, by YSM students’ matches. Francis describes the YSM MD class of 2025 as “an accomplished, talented, clinically astute, and prepared group of students who have matched into exemplary training programs across the country.” He continued, “We are so very proud of them. They are among the best of the best.”

Reflecting, Brown states, “Each year, Match Day reminds us why we are here. Never more than this year. I remain proud of our students and grateful to our faculty and community for helping them reach their goals.”

The residency programs with the most matches are:

• Yale New Haven Medical Center residency programs: 21 students
• Harvard-affiliated programs, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, and Massachusetts General Hospital: 19 students
• Johns Hopkins Hospital: four students

Three students matched at each of the following programs: Duke University Medical Center, Hospital for the University of Pennsylvania, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell) Program, Stanford Health Care, and University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals.

Two students matched at each of the following eight programs: Brown University affiliated hospitals, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, Northwestern University, University of Florida College of Medicine affiliated programs, University of Miami affiliated programs, University of Michigan Health, and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

The MD Class of 2025 will be spread across 13 states—and Canada, with one student matching at the University of Toronto.

Students matched in 21 different specialties. Internal Medicine (including Internal Medicine/Pediatrics and Internal Medicine-Primary Care) residencies drew the most students (23), followed by Anesthesiology (9), Psychiatry (7), and Emergency Medicine (6). Four students are participating in residencies in Dermatology. Twenty-four students are participating in residencies in general surgery or a surgical specialty: General Surgery (3), Orthopaedic Surgery (3), Neurological Surgery (2), Ophthalmology (5), Otolaryngology (3), Plastic Surgery (4), Thoracic Surgery (2), Urology (1), and Vascular Surgery (1).