Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine achieved a 100 percent Match rate for its fourth-year class of student-doctors during Match Day, March 15, a significant milestone for all medical schools nationally as students receive their future assignment for residency placement.
The Match process begins every summer as upcoming fourth-year medical students apply and interview with numerous residency programs throughout the country offering specialty training in medical and surgical specialties. Medical students and program directors rank preferred programs and applicants and submit them to the National Resident Matching Program.
LUCOM celebrated 146 student-doctors matching into 14 different specialties; 67.8 percent matched into a primary care specialty — Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Psychiatry. Other specialties that students matched in were Emergency Medicine, Transitional, Anesthesiology, Neurology, General Surgery, Pathology, Orthopedic Surgery, Urology, and EM/Family Medicine.
These future physicians will be serving communities across 34 different states; the top five are Virginia (28 students), California (10), Pennsylvania (10), South Carolina (10), and Ohio (9).
This year marks the second time in the last three years that LUCOM achieved a 100 percent Match rate.
“We are so excited for our medical students in this 2024 Match,” LUCOM Dean Dr. Joseph Johnson said. “What an exciting group of students who have consistently met the challenges on their road to being a physician that will treat the mind, body, and spirit of all those patients they serve.”
