USD SSOM Medical Students Learn Post-Graduate Destinations at Match Day 2023
The 65 new doctors, following graduation in May, will move on to the next stage of their training at clinics, hospitals and health care facilities across the nation.
Destinations for USD medical student residencies include 27 states. South Dakota takes the lead with keeping 15 USD medical school graduates from the Class of 2023. Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan and Wisconsin will host four graduates each, while Arizona, California and Kansas will host three apiece.
The most popular residency is internal medicine, with 10 graduates pursuing training in that area. Nine graduates will receive training in pediatrics; eight in family medicine, six in psychiatry and five each in emergency medicine and general surgery.
Nationally, 48,156 active applicants from all U.S. medical schools and some non-U.S. medical schools were vying for 40,375 residency positions in the U.S. The Sanford School of Medicine had a 100% match rate in 2023.
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