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SHREVEPORT, La. -- Today, 152 LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine students learned where they will go to complete their residency training during the annual Match Day celebration. Each year, on the third Friday in March at noon, all fourth-year medical students throughout the United States discover where they have “matched” to for their residency training.
For applicants, Match Day signals the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education. LSU Health Shreveport had 96.1% of the School of Medicine’s applicants matched through the National Resident Matching Program, showing LSUHS' strong position at the national level.
Of the 2025 class, 44% have matched in primary care residencies comprised of internal medicine, OB/GYN, pediatrics, family medicine and medicine-pediatrics. LSU Health Shreveport retains 22% of the students for their residency with a total of 46% of the 2025 graduates staying in Louisiana. Of those, 76% are staying in Louisiana for a residency at an LSU medical school.
LSU Health Shreveport officials said retaining students in Louisiana for their residency is critical for addressing Louisiana’s projected physician shortfall. According to the American Medical Association, Louisiana is projected to have the third worst physician shortage ratio in the U.S.
by 2030, with an undersupply of 100 doctors for every 100,000 people. The five-year match rate for the LSUHS School of Medicine is 98.24%.
LSU Health Shreveport medical students matched to highly competitive residencies and will train in prestigious programs around the country including Stanford, University of Alabama-Birmingham, UT Southwestern, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Baylor, University of Tennessee/Memphis and several others. The LSU Health Shreveport Class of 2025 will receive their doctor of medicine degrees on May 10. “We are pleased that so many of our students achieved the milestone of matching allowing them to progress in their goal of becoming practicing physicians.
I offer these students my heartfelt congratulations. I also want to express deep appreciation to our faculty and staff who invested in these future physicians as their guidance and support are essential to student success,” said Dr. David Guzick, chancellor and dean of the LSUHS School of Medicine.
Match Day also reveals the number of newly minted physicians coming into the Shreveport-Bossier area to begin their post graduate training. The LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine successfully filled all 138 residency positions. This new group of trainees (residents and fellows) will be welcomed to Shreveport in July, where they will train at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center, St.
Mary Medical Center, Monroe Medical Center and Rapides Medical Center along with other partner hospitals..
