Match Day figures from LSU Health New Orleans indicate 80% of their graduating students who are staying in Louisiana for their residency will enter one at LSU Health. Richard DiCarlo, Interim Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine said it is very encouraging when their graduates remain in-state.
“If you look at doctors around the state of Louisiana, probably between 60 and 70% of them have trained or gone through medical school or gone through their residency at LSU,” said DiCarlo.
Match Day is when every medical graduate student in the country learns which residency program they will enter, based on which one they chose and which program chose them, similar to signing day for athletes.
And the ones who will do their residency out of state, DiCarlo said they are entering prestigious ones.
“Johns Hopkins, Duke to Dartmouth, Cornell, the Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt, so our students are in demand and we know that a lot of those students who go away will end up coming back for practice,” said DiCarlo.
DiCarlo said about 20 to 25% of their students will practice internal medicine, and others enter general surgery, pediatrics, and family practice. And recently he said more are entering the field of psychiatry.
“And that is important because there really is a great need for psychiatrists and people in mental health. We have a lot of students that go into OB/GYN and that is also important,” said DiCarlo.
Forty-nine percent of LSU Health New Orleans medical grads will remain in Louisiana for their residency and 46% of LSU Health Shreveport grads will stay in-state for theirs.
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