The 120 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine seniors will learn at noon tomorrow in Turner Auditorium which residency program they will enter to continue their medical training. Hopkins students are among more than 14,000 U.S. medical school seniors participating in the National Resident Matching Program, through which almost all graduates secure residency positions. Last month, students ranked their desired locations and specialties, and hospitals ranked their requirements.
Computers make the matches.
Historically, Hopkins students usually get their first or second choices. Following a national trend, the number of students looking to train in some specialities continues to decline. For instance, a decreasing number of Hopkins students are requesting radiology residencies and an increasing number are requesting residencies in internal medicine, pediatrics and family medicine, said H. Franklin Herlong, M.D., associate dean for students and associate professor of medicine. Sixty-five percent of the Hopkins senior class will be in primary care residencies.