A total of 126 senior medical students at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, learned about their residency assignments March 21 during an event at the Omaha Design Center. Referred to as ‘Match Day’ — is an annual rite of passage for medical students, a day when students across the country learn where they will train for the next three to seven years. 

Forty-six percent of UNMC medical students are staying in Nebraska for their training, with 41% at UNMC. Fifty-three percent matched in primary care, which includes family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, medicine-preliminary, medicine-psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics.

The UNMC medical students, slated to graduate in May, include Cade Cody, of Cody Nebraska, who will be doing his residency in Emergency Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland