From the Archives: Celebrating Match Day 2025!
Match Day is fast approaching! Every year on the third Friday of March, fourth-year medical students across the United States learn where they will be completing their residency, marking an important milestone in their medical careers. On March 21, 2025 at 11 a.m. Central Time, medical students will learn what city and hospital they will train at during their residency. Read more about Match Day or visit the official site of The Match at the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
If you are interested in learning more about the history of Match Day, check out this article.
It details the fascinating history of how Match Day evolved into a centralized match system driven by a flawed algorithm and how a final-year Harvard Medical Student, William Hardy Hendren III, saved the day. His 2006 oral history with the American Academy of Pediatrics is also an interesting read.
Match Day is a long-standing institution here on campus. The first Match was held back in 1952 by the NRMP. We’d like to extend our best wishes and congratulations to all our Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine students and future residents, and share some images of past Match Days here on campus!
Contributed by Diane Fotinos, University Archivist and Melissa DeThorne, Library Assistant Special Collections
Supplementary Material by Pat Hawthorne, Chris Gaspard, and Kelley Minars