One hundred and seven graduating medical students in the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine learned on March 17 where they will spend the next three to five years of their lives completing residency training after receiving their medical degrees at the end of April.
More than 39 percent of the Wright State graduates will remain in Ohio during residency, and 33 percent will remain in Dayton.
More than a third (37.4 percent) will enter a primary care field (Family Medicine: 12.1 percent; Internal Medicine: 15 percent; and Pediatrics: 8.5 percent; and Internal Medicine/Pediatrics: 0.9 percent). The rest of the medical students matched in 15 other specialties: Anesthesiology: 4.7 percent; Dermatology: 2.8 percent; Emergency Medicine: 9.3 percent; Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine 0.9 percent; Neurology: 7.4 percent; Obstetrics and Gynecology: 8.4 percent; Ophthalmology: 0.9 percent; Orthopedic Surgery: 3.7 percent; Pathology: 0.9 percent; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: 0.9 percent; Plastic Surgery: 1.9 percent; Psychiatry: 11.2 percent; Radiology: 1.9 percent; Surgery: 4.7 percent; and Urology: 1.9 percent.