On the third Thursday of March each year, Match Day ceremonies are held at 155 medical schools across the U.S as fourth year medical students receive their placements for residencies.

The University of Iowa had 143 students among its graduating class this year, 23 of whom will begin residencies at UI Hospitals and Clinics. An additional 11 students will take residencies within the state of Iowa, while the other 77% of graduates will leave the state.

Just under half of the UI students (47%) chose primary care specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology. Emergency medicine and anesthesiology were the top two non-primary care specialties to receive matches.

See the Gazette’s story from yesterday for photos of student’s celebrating and their thoughts on the down economy’s effects on their jobs.

The entire list of this year’s match results are available at http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/osac/MatchResults.html