Match Day

MEDICAL EDUCATION

Each year, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's graduating class participates in one of the most exciting days for any medical student: Match Day. Across the country, graduating students simultaneously discover which residency programs they have been matched to—launching them into the next phase of their medical careers.

Match Day 2026

Excitement filled the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Friday, March 20. Precisely at noon, fourth-year students opened notices that resolved their weeks-long state of suspense to learn where they had matched for their clinical training. The thrill of the match was met with cheers and tears of joy, bouquets of flowers, glasses of bubbly, and hugs from very proud parents crowding 583 Park Ave. Similar Match Day ceremonies occurred simultaneously at medical schools across the nation.

Icahn School of Medicine’s Class of 2026 has 138 students matching into 20 different specialties at some of the most prestigious residency programs in the nation, including those at Columbia University Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford Health Care, UCLA Medical Center, Weill Cornell Medical Center, Yale New Haven Hospital, and the Mount Sinai Health System. More than one-third of the class, 55 students, will be training at the hospitals of the Mount Sinai Health System.

The most popular specialties for Icahn School of Medicine’s Class of 2026 are Internal Medicine (34), Anesthesiology (16), Psychiatry (11), and Obstetrics-Gynecology (9). Leading surgical specialties include Orthopedics (8), General Surgery (7), Neurosurgery (4), and Plastic Surgery (4).

The Mount Sinai Health System, which has one of the nation’s largest residency programs, will be welcoming 494 medical school graduates to 64 residency programs at The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai West, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, and Mount Sinai South Nassau.

The National Resident Matching Program conducts the Main Residency Match annually through mathematical algorithms that align the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency programs at teaching hospitals across the country. The 2026 Match included a record 48,050 applicants certifying a rank order list of training preferences, 38,354 of whom matched to a post-graduate year one position.