Mark your calendars for Match Day: Friday, March 21, 2025 at 9 a.m. MST (12:00 p.m. Eastern time).
The celebration will be held under the palo verde trees in front of the Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building, 475 N. 5th Street, Phoenix, AZ.

Match Day is the culmination of a complex year-long process that matches the nation’s graduating medical students with residency programs. Match results are released nationally at Match Day ceremonies coordinated to occur on the same date — the third Friday in March — at the same time (12:00 p.m. Eastern time) each year.

Under the match process, during the first half of their senior year, medical students apply for positions at residency programs, then interview with program directors, faculty and residents. In February, students submit their list of choices in order of preference — at the same time residency program directors submit their rank-ordered lists of preferred candidates — to the National Residency Matching Program headquarters in Washington, D.C. A computer matches each student* to the residency program that is highest on the student’s list and that has offered a position to the applicant. Residency programs vary in length from three years for general medicine/family practice specialties to eight years for the most specialized of surgeons.

*To protect our students' privacy, we have chosen not to publish our students’ Match List.

Highlights from Match Day 2024

News, Video and Photos:

• From Uncertainty to Elation, the Class of 2024 Matches (Feature Story).
• Class of 2024 Match Day Recap.
• Photos from the event.

Class of 2024 Fast Facts

• Thirty-six students will complete at least one year of training in Arizona.
• Thirty-three students will complete all years of their residency training in Arizona.
• Of the students staying in Arizona for some, or all, of their training:
  • Twenty matched at U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix.
  • Three matched at U of A College of Medicine – Tucson.
  • Eight matched at Creighton University-affiliated hospitals.
  • Four matched at Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education.
  • One matched at another training site in the state.
• The other students will be spread out across the U.S., spanning 23 states in total.
• Almost 32% of the graduates are entering primary care specialties — areas of immense need — including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and Med-Peds.

Student Profiles