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Match Day 2024: By the Numbers

Applicants registered in the 2024 Main Residency Match: 50,413 (record high, up 2,257 from 2023)

Available PGY-1 and PGY-2 training positions: 41,503 (6,395 certified programs)

Most popular specialties among Georgetown students:

  • Internal Medicine:  21
  • Anesthesiology: 18
  • Orthopedics : 18
  • General Surgery: 15
  • Emergency Medicine: 11
  • OB-GYN: 11
  • Neurology: 11
  • Dermatology: 8
  • Diagnostic Radiology: 7
  • Urology: 6
Envelopes line a table on Match Day
A student holds his Match Day envelope
A student holds a sign that reads I matched in dermatology at Howard

Most popular destinations for Georgetown students:

  • Washington, DC: 32 students
  • New York: 25 students
  • California: 25 students
  • Pennsylvania: 14 students
  • Massachusetts: 9 students
  • North Carolina: 9 students
  • Virginia: 9 students
  • Maryland: 8 students

Number of Georgetown students matching at a MedStar Health hospital: 32

Number of lives School of Medicine students will impact throughout their careers: Countless!

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Tears of joy and screams of excitement filled the air at Georgetown’s annual Match Day celebration, as graduating medical students learned where their journeys would take them next for residency training in a tradition that plays out at medical schools on the same day across the country.

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