Match Day
Match Day 2020:
March 20, 2020
We are disappointed to announce that Match Day 2020 will be a virtual event, given the risk to our community as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve. Participants will receive further details via email.
In this moment, we are particularly proud to celebrate our medical students as they dedicate themselves to the frontlines of medical care.
About Match Day
Match Day is an annual, nationwide event. On this day, graduating medical students across the country find out which specialties, and which hospitals or care centers, they have matched to for their residency training.
Weeks before Match Day, the students submit their preferred residency programs to the National Resident Matching Program, which uses an algorithm to make the assignments.
When Match Day arrives, graduating medical students – at Washington University and around the country – gather with classmates, family members and mentors to open the envelopes revealing the next step in their careers. Inside, they discover where they will spend the next years of their lives training to become surgeons, pediatricians, neurologists or physicians in other specialties.
Match Day is the culmination of four years of medical school and months of applications and interviews. At Washington University School of Medicine, students are supported and encouraged along their journeys, as each seeks to find his or her best match. Here, students get a world-class medical education that fully prepares them for the challenges and rigors of residency training.
Photos and stories
Select a year below to see Match Day photos, videos and more.