A New Class of Residents Match to Stanford

The news spread online, with excited emails and shared photos and celebrations at a responsible social distance: the newest class of residents has just matched to Stanford.

Ron Witteles, MD, professor of cardiovascular medicine and Residency Program Director, shared the good news with his colleagues over email. The spread of COVID-19 turned the usual celebration of Match Day (groups of families, spouses, parents, and students gathered together, all eagerly awaiting envelopes telling thousands of medical students where they’d be doing their residency) into a virtual party, but the good news made it out anyway.

“We had an absolutely, positively, spectacular match this year,” Witteles said. The class of 2020-21 is the largest one Stanford has ever had, with 61 incoming interns. It’s also a triumph for two major Department of Medicine goals: physician-scientist recruitment into the Translational Investigator Pathway (TIP) and expanded diversity.

Witteles concluded, “I know that you’ll all greatly enjoy working with this absolutely outstanding group of incoming residents for the coming years.”

Get to know the 2020-2021 residents:

By the numbers

Of the 61 students joining Stanford Medicine’s residency program, 39 matched categorical to Internal Medicine. 3 students matched to the Global Health Track, and 1 matched to the combined Internal Medicine-Anesthesia residency program (one of only three such programs in the country). 18 students matched for one-year Internal Medicine training before continuing their training in Anesthesia or Neurology.

The new resident group includes 8 MD-PhDs, including 7 new members of the Translational Investigator Pathway (TIP) program. 19% of the incoming class come from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in medicine.