At Albany Med, 142 students were matched with residency programs. Forty-three were matched to programs in New York, including 11 who will stay on at Albany Med to complete their residencies, the college announced.

Nearly half of the class will pursue primary care specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine, medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology, the college said.

“Match Day marks the culmination of years of studying, training and research, and is one of the most exciting events in a medical student’s educational career,” said Dr. Alan Boulos, interim dean of the college. “Our students have shown remarkable perseverance throughout the pandemic. We are confident that with their determination, ability to adapt, and the compassion they have shown one another, they will make exceptional physicians.”

Albany Med, meanwhile, filled all its available residency positions, the college said. Positions were filled in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, general surgery, preliminary surgery, internal medicine, preliminary medicine, medicine/pediatrics, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic surgery, psychiatry, radiology, integrated vascular radiology and vascular surgery.

After graduating from medical school, physicians must complete a residency program for an additional three to seven years of medical training. Assignments begin in July, the college said.

There were 39,205 total positions available to fill as part of the 2022 match program — the largest on record. This year’s program also saw a record number of positions offered in primary care. Of the 36,277 first-year positions offered this year, half were in family medicine, internal medicine, medicine – pediatrics, medicine – primary, pediatrics, and pediatrics – primary.