As the 2023 class of medical school students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai filled the Guggenheim Pavilion on Friday, March 17, the air was abuzz with smiles and hugs from familiar faces. The hour drew closer to noon, and the fourth-year students, along with tens of thousands of their peers across the country, awaited the arrival of a message that would mark the next phase of their medical careers: their residency program matches on Match Day.

“This class will forever be in the history of Mount Sinai,” said Dennis Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of Icahn Mount Sinai, addressing expectant attendees. The class arrived as first-year students and began their training during the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

“Adversity reveals character, and the way you handled the pandemic says a lot about who you are,” said Dr. Charney. “You did great. You’re going to find out in a minute or so that you matched to the best programs in the United States.”

Match Day celebrates the Main Residency Match, conducted by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). The program aligns the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency programs at teaching hospitals across the nation through mathematical algorithms.

This year, Icahn Mount Sinai’s graduating MD class received their matches in a personalized bottle. They matched to many of the nation’s most competitive residency programs, spanning more than 22 specialties across the country.

Learn more about the numbers behind Match Day 2023 and celebrate these exceptional individuals with us.

Fourth-year MD students from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai received their residency matches in a personalized bottle on Match Day 2023

The 2023 Main Residency Match was the largest in NMRP’s 70-year history—with 42,952 applicants, 34,822 of whom matched to a first-year position (PGY-1)

With 81.1 percent of applicants for 2023 matched, it represents a 1 percent increase over the previous year

Mount Sinai Health System welcomes 512 new residents, who will arrive in July

The Health System’s new residents come from some of the top medical schools in the United States, including 55 Icahn Mount Sinai graduates

From Icahn Mount Sinai’s Class of 2023, comprising 137 students, 26.3 percent matched into primary care specialties, 23.4 percent matched into surgical specialties, and 40.9 percent matched into other specialties

In the other specialties, Icahn Mount Sinai’s graduating class had the most matches into psychiatry, with 8.8 percent. This was followed by anesthesiology and emergency medicine, both with 7.3 percent, and dermatology, with 5.1 percent

A record number of primary care positions were offered in the 2023 Main Residency Match. There were 571 more primary care positions than 2022, an increase of 3.2 percent over last year and an increase of 17 percent over the last five years. Primary care positions also were filled at a rate of 94.2 percent, which remained steady from last year

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