CUNY School of Medicine Celebrates 100% Match Day Placement

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The City University of New York today announced that the CUNY School of Medicine achieved a 100% placement rate for its students into residency programs for Match Day. Held on the third Friday of March, Match Day represents a rite of passage for graduating medical students as they learn from the National Resident Matching Program where they will begin their internship, residency and training as new physicians. This year’s successful results, which saw students outperform the national rate of 93.5%, is the medical school’s first Match Day since it announced its transition to a freestanding medical school, continuing its tradition of excellence and exceeding the national average.

“For half a century, the CUNY School of Medicine has stood out for its ability to recruit medical students from and prepare them to serve within New York’s most underrepresented communities,” said CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez. “And even as the school embarks on a new journey towards independence, the class of 2025, with its outstanding 100% match rate, offers living proof that the commitment to equity and excellence continues. I congratulate Dean Green and the entire school of medicine for this well-deserved achievement.”

“With a 100% match rate for residency programs, we’ve achieved a high-water mark at CUNY School of Medicine. It is a bold statement of confidence in the caliber of our students, the dedication of our faculty and staff, and our visionary approach to medical education,” said CUNY School of Medicine Dean Carmen Renée Green, M.D.

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“As a newly independent and freestanding academic medical school within CUNY, we are known for creating innovative pathway programs for exceptionally talented high school students from the greater NYC metropolitan area that demonstrate ambition and a commitment to serve. We unlock their potential, train them, and provide them with the tools to become stewards of community health via a unique seven-year combined B.S./M.D. program. Together with CUNY and our health system partners, the School of Medicine is eliminating educational disparities and addressing healthcare disparities across our region and is truly changing the skyline of academic medicine in New York.”

Meeting Community Needs

Match Day builds on CUNY Medicine’s historic record of success in training a medical workforce that will particularly serve New York City’s underserved communities. Among its student body, 53% identify as Black or Latino, compared to just 16% of medical students nationwide. Moreover, with a class size just one-seventh the national average, CUNY Medicine ranks fifth in the nation for the number of Black doctors it graduates and trains one in five of New York City’s Black M.D. students. Such numbers take on added importance given recent studies showing that Black representation among primary care physicians is correlated with improved health outcomes for Black patients.

As important as who its students are is the work they do after graduating. Typically, 75% of CUNY Medicine’s graduates practice locally, and nearly 40% among those serve in healthcare shortage areas, helping to address New York’s critical lack of physicians. This dedication to local communities reflects CUNY Medicine’s dual mission, going back over 50 years to its foundation as the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York, to provide a medical education and train medical professionals who can best identify with their patients.

The CUNY School of Medicine in Harlem is distinguished among the nation’s 158 medical schools by the rich mosaic of its student body and its mission to make medical education accessible to historically underrepresented students. The School of Medicine became an M.D. granting institution in 2016, offering a highly competitive and selective accelerated seven-year B.S./M.D. program. With its proven, holistic admissions process that does not require the MCAT, the school’s ongoing transformation has become a national leader and model of accessibility for other medical schools across the country. The School is also home to one of the nation’s oldest Physician Assistant programs, ranked No. 3 in New York State by U.S. News & World Report. Under the leadership of Dean Carmen Renée Green, M.D., who was appointed in October 2021, the School is expanding its pathway and partnership programs into neighborhoods where access to medical education and healthcare providers has been limited. With the addition of a master’s and doctoral degree as well as post-graduate residency, the school is poised for growth and an increased capacity to support New York and its diverse communities. Learn more at medicine.cuny.edu.

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