NEOMED celebrates Match Day

NEOMED held its annual Match Day ceremony as 162 graduating medical students learned where they will begin their careers as physicians. Students were delighted to learn of their placement at prestigious institutions throughout the U.S.  More than 50% of NEOMED students will stay in Ohio, addressing the growing need for physicians to serve communities across the state.     

The NEOMED event is timed to coincide with National Residency Match Day, which took place at noon, on Friday, March 20. 

In Ohio, medical residency placements include University Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, Summa Health and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Additionally, NEOMED students matched at institutions throughout the U.S., including the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, Emory, Northwestern and Boston Children’s Hospital.

Forty percent of 2026 NEOMED College of Medicine graduates will go into residencies in primary care, which includes family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics. Other popular specialties included emergency medicine, surgery, psychiatry and anesthesiology. 

See where they matched.

Related

Read Photos of NEOMED Match Day in the Akron Beacon Journal

Watch 'Very surreal. I cried a lot': Future doctors learn their professional destinies at NEOMED's Match Day on WKYC-TV3

Gallery

A young woman holding a poster depicting anesthesiology is surrounded her family in front of a NEOMED backdrop. A man stands at a NEOMED podium holding a baby boy. A man and a woman hold signs saying "I Matched" while standing in front a NEOMED College of Medicine banner. He matched emergency medicine at U Mass and she matched pediatrics at UC Davis Two young men hold signs saying "I matched" while a man in a white coat makes a silly face behind them Three young men hold signs saying "I matched" in front of a NEOMED backdrop flanked by blue, white and silver balloons Two young men hold signs saying "I matched" Two young women hold signs saying "I matched" An excited young man holds up a cell phone camera while standing with a proud young woman holding a sign above her head that says "I matched" A young man holds up a letter showing that he matched into residency. An older man poses next to him with his hand resting on the young man's shoulder. Nate the Walking Whale holds a sign saying "I Matched" in front of a NEOMED backdrop. The sign says he matched in oceanic neurology at the National Aquarium.

March 20, 2026
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