2019 MU-COM Top 5 Residency States Indiana Illinois Ohio Michigan Kentucky 2019 IUSM Top 5 Residency States Indiana Ohio Illinois Michigan Missouri 2019 MU-COM Top 5 Residency Specialties Family Medicine Internal Medicine Anesthesiology Pediatrics Obstetrics/Gynecology 2019 IUSM Top 5 Residency Specialties Internal Medicine Pediatrics Anesthesiology Family Medicine Emergency Medicine

About one-third of medical residents coming from Indiana medical schools this year will remain here for their residencies, they learned on Match Day, March 15. Of the 158 fourth-year students at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MU-COM) who matched, 30 percent will remain in the Hoosier state, while 34 percent of the 331 Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) students who matched will stay for at least part of their residencies.

The matching rate for the MU-COM students who participated in the program was 98.8 percent. At IUSM, the largest medical school in the U.S., the rate was 96.5 percent. As in the past few years, primary care fields dominate the top-five lists for Indiana’s 2019 medical graduates, while nearby states of top the list of residency destinations.

‘We’re excited to retain so many of our talented medical students in Indiana for the next chapter of their careers,” said Dean Jay Hess, MD, PhD, IUSM’s dean and executive vice president for university clinical affairs. “We know that IU School of Medicine graduates who remain in Indiana for their residency are very likely to practice here, which ultimately ensures Hoosiers have access to high-quality care throughout the state.

MU-COM was established in 2013, in part to increase the number of physicians in primary care in Indiana. 

We are obviously pleased with the 98.8 percent placement rate for MU-COM graduates,” said Donald Sefcik, DO, senior vice president of health professions at Marian University and dean of MU-COM. “We are equally excited that 62.5 percent of our graduates will begin residencies in primary care specialties and that nearly one-third of them will remain right here in Indiana for their residencies.” 

Nationally, the 2019 Main Residency Match (MRM), administered by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) is the largest in the organization’s history. A record 38,376 applicants submitted program choices for 35,185 positions, the most ever offered in the Match, according to NRMP. The number of available first-year (PGY-1) positions rose to 32,194, an increase of 1,962, or 6.5 percent, from 2018. One reason for the higher number of positions available was that more osteopathic programs joined the MRM, as osteopathic and allopathic medical schools transition to a single accreditation system for graduate medical education programs.

Details of the 2019 national match statistics, including specialty competitiveness trends and applicant highlights, can be found here. To view a by-the-numbers breakdown of key 2019 statistics, go here.