Today, the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine (ICOM) celebrated Match Day with its Class of 2025, as the 149 graduating physicians learned where they will complete their residency training. ICOM is proud to share that 100 percent of its graduating student physicians matched into residency training programs.
Match Day is a major milestone for fourth-year medical students. The annual event occurs on the third Friday in March when the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) notifies graduating medical students from across the country of the location where they will continue their medical training. For several months, students have been applying and interviewing for these coveted spots in their medical specialties of choice.
Eighteen graduates will remain in Idaho for their graduate medical education, also known as residency. In all, ICOM students matched into 21% of all PGY-1 residency positions in Idaho.
”The Class of 2025 has worked diligently over the last four years and that hard work has paid off as they have matched into outstanding residences both here in Idaho and across the United States,” said Dr. Kevin Wilson, Dean and Chief Academic Officer at ICOM. “Every member of the Class of 2025 has matched into a residency portion, with over half of this class matching into a primary care specialty. I would like to thank all of the physicians and residency program directors in Idaho and across our core sites who have worked with our students to prepare them for residency.”
The most popular specialty amongst ICOM’s Class of 2025 is family medicine, with 41 graduates pursuing that specialty. Internal medicine is the second most favored specialty amongst the class, with 32 graduates pursuing that specialty.
Just over 55% of the class will pursue a primary care specialty, which includes family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. For the first time in the College’s history, student physicians matched into Urology and Otolaryngology specialties.
“Idaho and much of the country suffer from an acute and growing shortage of physicians,” said Dr. Tracy J. Farnsworth, President of ICOM. “Thankfully, a goodly number of these new graduate-resident-physicians will one day return to Idaho.”
ICOM’s Class of 2025 applied to residency programs throughout the country. ICOM graduates matched and will pursue residencies in the following specialties after graduation:
- Anesthesiology
- Dermatology
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- General Surgery
- Internal Medicine
- Neurology
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (ONMM)
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Psychiatry
- Urology
- Vascular Surgery
The Class of 2025 will participate in the College’s commencement ceremony on Friday, May 23 at the Morrison Center in Boise.
