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Another recruitment season nears completion as hopeful residency candidates and programs finalize their rank lists with sights set on a successful Match Day 2025. The deadline for both applicants and programs to submit their preferences in the National Residency Matching Program’s Main Residency Match is March 5, 2025. At that point, the NRMP’s matching algorithm is administered and provides the exciting results on Match Day – Friday, March 21, 2025.

Interviews concluded on January 30, 2025, with 109 candidates hosted for in-person visits to the hospital and Oxford, Mississippi, and another 51 candidates who interviewed and participated in informational events virtually. Each of these aspiring resident physicians shared their inspiring stories with faculty, residents, and administration. They hail from communities across the globe and share a passion for medicine and making a difference in their patients’ lives.

Program leadership focused on learning about the whole candidate, with the most important criteria remaining as “mission fit.” This has always included applicants who are natives of the Mid-South, were educated in the area, have a strong connection to loved ones in Mississippi or the Mid-South, and those who have a strong desire to live in and serve the state and region after training.  

The group will begin their three years of training in July 2025 following an extensive orientation period in June, and a full class announcement will be forthcoming later this Spring.