Illinois medical schools commemorate Match Day with high rates of students staying in state

Internal medicine remained one of the most popular specialties for Illinois medical students pursuing residency.

All students in Rush Medical College’s graduating class matched into residency programs. Thirty-six percent of fourth-year medical students will stay in Illinois for residency. Out of its graduating class of 133, 39 students will work for hospitals in and around Chicago.

Over half of Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine matched students will stay in the Midwest for residency, with 14 percent of matched students working at Loyola University Medical Center. Stritch also celebrated its first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient to achieve a joint M.D./Ph.D.

Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has 32.7 percent of its matched students remaining in Illinois for residency. Specialties that drew the most students included internal medicine, pediatrics, OB-GYN, anesthesiology and general surgery.

Thirty-five percent of fourth-year medical students at Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University matched into Illinois programs. Psychiatry, internal medicine, family medicine and anesthesiology were the top specialties.

Illinois is the most popular residency location for University of Illinois College of Medicine students, with 51 staying at the university. Most matches pursued internal medicine, psychiatry, emergency medicine, pediatrics and diagnostic radiology.

Roughly 20 percent of matched students at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine will be staying in Illinois. Internal medicine, anesthesiology and psychiatry were the top three specialties.

Over 40 percent of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s matched students will remain in state. Family medicine was the most popular specialty, followed by emergency medicine. Internal medicine and pediatrics were tied for third.

– Elizabeth Casolo for Health News Illinois