Coordinated by the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP), the main residency match process uses a computerized mathematical algorithm that pairs the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency programs, resulting in a best result for graduating students. Marshall students, along with medical students from across the country, all opened their match letters at the same date and time. 

Half of Marshall’s fourth-year medical students matched to primary care residencies, which are identified in West Virginia as family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology. Other students were accepted into anesthesiology, child neurology, dermatology, diagnostic radiology, emergency medicine, general surgery, neurology, neurological surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, pathology and psychiatry. Twenty-seven students will remain in West Virginia to complete their residency training.  

 "Match Day is a big life event, and I'm ready for the next phase of learning on the job in a clinical setting," said Richard Ford Jr., of Ashland, Kentucky, who matched into an anesthesiology residency at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. "Marshall is right down the river from home. It always made me feel at home, and it prepared me for the next step in my journey." 

Across the U.S., this represents the largest Match in the NRMP’s 73-year history, with 52,498 registered applicants submitted program choices for 43,237 available positions in 6,626 residency training programs.  

View the complete match list for the School of Medicine’s Class of 2025. Photos from the event are available at jcesom.smugmug.com/Events/2025-Events/Match-Day-2025. For news and information about the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, follow us on X @MUSOMWV, like us on Facebook or visit jcesom.marshall.edu.