FIU posts 100% Match Day
FIU Medicine’s Class of 2026 achieved 100% residency placement and set a Florida retention record—an outcome that advancement teams can turn into pride-driven communications and stewardship moments. Tangible career outcomes like this are potent reactivation assets. (communitynewspapers.com)
The Class of 2026 generated 112 residency placements, with 55% of graduates entering programs in Florida and 37% staying in South Florida. (medicine.fiu.edu) Forty-three percent of the cohort matched into primary care, and students filled positions across 22 specialties in 21 states, led by internal medicine, general surgery, neurology, emergency medicine and family medicine. (medicine.fiu.edu) Five students matched into the joint FIU/Baptist Health residency programs—the second year of that partnership—and one Albert and Debbie Taño full-tuition scholar, Daniel Boaretto, matched to an anesthesiology position at NYU. (news.fiu.edu) The 2026 Main Residency Match was the largest in NRMP history with more than 53,000 applicants and over 44,000 residency positions offered, producing nationwide fill rates above 93% and underscoring the competitive context for placements. (nrmp.org) Population-level analyses show the majority of physicians practice in the state where they completed residency—62% of family physicians in a 2007–2018 cohort and roughly 54–57% overall in AAMC reports—highlighting the downstream workforce effect of FIU graduates’ high in-state placement. (annfammed.org)
