{"id":73184,"date":"2022-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/03\/18\/its-match-day-for-unmc-med-students\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:23:09","slug":"its-match-day-for-unmc-med-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/03\/18\/its-match-day-for-unmc-med-students\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Match Day for UNMC med students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>The University of Nebraska at Omaha&rsquo;s Baxter Arena will be alive with anticipation today. That&rsquo;s when 131 UNMC senior medical students will find out where they will spend their residency training after graduating from medical school in May.<\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" style=\"width:400px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"picture disc.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MatchDay2019031822-scaled.jpg\" style=\"float:right\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Students pin their residency locations in Omaha and around the country.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Students are matched through a computer program to align their preferences for residency programs in order to fill the thousands of training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Resident Matching Program&reg; (NRMP&reg;), or The Match&reg;, is a private, non-profit organization that provides an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors.<\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" style=\"width:250px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"picture disc.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MatchDayIG031822-scaled.jpg\" style=\"float:right\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The UNMC community can look for Match Day coverage in UNMC Today, on Flickr and on UNMC and College of Medicine social media channels.&nbsp;A recording of the Match Day event will be available in the days following the event.<\/p>\n<p>Students can add to the occasion by tagging their own social posts to #UNMCMatch2022. Match Day reveal graphics are available on UNMC&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iamunmc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram page<\/a>, and communications staff will document the day live on UNMC&#39;s Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#39;s Match Day participants include&nbsp;a former Husker football player, a former Yale art student, students who got married during medical school, students who had babies&nbsp;and at least three married couples who will &quot;couples match,&quot; meaning they will find out if they receive residency assignments together.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For my class and our loved ones, Match Day is one of those &lsquo;benchmark&rsquo; moments,&quot; said Taylor Kratochvil, president of the class. &quot;The event is an opportunity to reflect on the road that brought us here, recognize the many folks who have supported us&nbsp;and celebrate the adventures ahead. 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