Of course, you want a medical school that will prepare you well for clinical training in your chosen specialty. Our graduates routinely match at prestigious residency training programs across the country, and long-term studies indicate that 95 percent of them are rated as equal to or better than their peers during residency training. Typically, 40 to 45 percent of graduating WSU medical students choose residencies in primary care fields, while the majority choose other specialties ranging from anesthesiology to urology. After graduation almost half the members of each class relocate to another state to begin residency training.

2009 was a banner year for the Match at Wright State

It's a match!

On Thursday, March 19, four long years of hard work and dedication paid off for the 97 members of the Boonshoft School of Medicine Class of 2009. Our students matched at top residency training programs across the country, including Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina; Johns Hopkins University-Sinai Hospital in Baltimore; the University of Chicago Medical Center; and Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. About 44 percent of the members of the Class of 2009 chose primary care specialties: Family Medicine: 11.3%, Internal Medicine: 17.4%, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics 1% and Pediatrics: 14.4%. The majority matched in 12 other specialties: Anesthesiology: 4.1%; Emergency Medicine: 9.3%; General Surgery: 11.3%; Neurology: 3.1%; Obstetrics & Gynecology: 5.2%; Orthopaedic Surgery: 4.1%; Pathology: 1%; Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: 1%; Plastic Surgery: 2.1%; Psychiatry: 8.2%; Radiation Oncology: 1%; and Radiology-Diagnostic: 3.1%.

With 97 Wright State medical students participating, 2009 represented the largest Match Day in school history. All 97 members of our graduating class passed Step 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination on their first attempt. Dean Parmelee, M.D., associate dean for academic affairs, expects their mean USMLE score to be well above the national average for this year.

To find out more about what it was like when the Class of 2009 experienced Match Day, view the podcast on this page and explore the links below.

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Class of 2009 match results

Full video of Match Day at Wright State (Requires Quicktime).

Residency placements for the past five years

Residency programs offered by Wright State

State map of where our grads matched in the past five years