HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Fourth-year medical students from the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine found out today during the annual Match Day ceremony where they will train for the next three to seven years. A total of 82 students from the Class of 2026 matched to residency programs.  

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. 

Forty-one percent 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, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, pathology, psychiatry, radiation oncology, radiology, and urology. Forty-one percent of students will remain in West Virginia to complete their residency training.  

Marshall programs filled 100% of first-year slots in its 15 residency training programs, including the new anesthesiology residency program. New resident physicians and fellows will begin their training in Huntington on July 1. 

“I am really grateful to Marshall for giving me the opportunity to be a student here and to learn in order to use my talents,” said Nkechi Uradu, who matched in the obstetrics-gynecology program at SUNY Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York. “I’m really grateful for the foundation I have built here.” 

 Across the U.S., this represents the largest Match in the NRMP’s 75-year history, with over 53,000 applicants registered and more than 44,000 residency positions offered in over 6,800 program tracks. 

View the complete match list for the School of Medicine’s Class of 2026. Photos from the event are available at https://jcesom.smugmug.com/Events/2026-Events/Match-Day-2026. 

Date Posted: Friday, March 20, 2026