Touro’s New York Medical College Celebrates Match Day With 99% Residency Placement Rate
Last week, the Class of 2026 at Touro University’s New York Medical College (NYMC) School of Medicine gathered on campus with family and friends for the culmination of years of hard work—the annual Match Day celebration. Along with graduating medical students across the country, NYMC seniors learned where they were matched to medical residency programs and will continue their training for the next several years in their chosen specialties. Conducted annually by the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP), the Match uses a computer algorithm to match the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency programs, to fill the available training positions at U.S. teaching hospitals.
The Class of 2026 will go on to train in 21 states and the District of Columbia at 99 different institutions, including at NYMC major clinical affiliates Westchester Medical Center and NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, as well as local clinical affiliates Phelps Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital, Northern Westchester Hospital, and Greenwich Hospital. They will also train at other major top-tier, research-intensive, academic medical centers across the country, including Beth Israel-Deaconess and Massachusetts General of the Harvard Medical School, Brown, Mount Sinai, Boston University, Stanford, Mayo Clinic, Columbia, George Washington University, Weill Cornell, New York University, Cedars Sinai, UCLA, Tufts, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Yale.
The top career choices for the Class of 2026 were internal medicine, surgery, emergency medicine, psychiatry, anesthesiology, neurology, orthopedic surgery and radiology.
{Shomer Shabbos Residency Matches
NYMC partners with its clinical sites in founding and promoting Shomer Shabbos medical residency training slots, which accommodate Shabbos observance while prioritizing patient care.
“New York Medical College and Touro University are proud to offer the largest number and variety of Shomer Shabbos medical and dental residency training opportunities in the United States. I am always pleased on Match Day to see students avail themselves of this option for their training,” said Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and CEO of NYMC.
Six NYMC students matched to Shomer Shabbos or Shomer Shabbos-friendly residencies, including David Schipper who will do a combined internal medicine/emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital and Yitzchok Lubin who will do internal medicine at Mt. Sinai South Nassau and then follow that with a fellowship to achieve his ultimate goal of entering the fields of oncology or pulmonary critical care.
A father of six whose mother is a neurologist and grandfather is an oncologist, Lubin grew up with an awareness of the lifestyle that busy doctors lead as well as the immense satisfaction that comes from a life devoted to patient care.
“I didn’t choose this career because of them, but I knew what I was getting into, and I was drawn to it,” says Lubin. “Touro’s New York Medical College was an ideal place to pursue my training. I had heard in advance about the congenial student body and the accessible faculty, and I experienced it myself. Even with a large class size, I got to know everyone, and my professors were open to feedback and willing to tailor the curriculum to meet the students’ needs. Also, as an observant Jew, I appreciated being in a rigorous medical setting and a school that is able to accommodate religious needs. My observance was never in conflict with my academics. It was a huge advantage, and I’m looking forward to having a similar experience during residency.”
David Schipper also grew up in a medical family—his mother is a dermatologist and father is a neurologist. Yet he chose this career because it allows him to spend his life helping others and giving back to the community while also pursuing his passion for teaching and the sciences. New York Medical College was a familiar choice as his mom is a 1983 NYMC graduate.
For Schipper, it was a no-brainer. “Having an active Jewish community on campus and training at a medical school where my religious practices would be accommodated made it the ideal choice.”
Schipper was drawn to both emergency medicine and internal medicine so he decided to pursue dual training. “I love the continuity of care that internal medicine offers, where you get to know your patients and I also love the excitement of emergency medicine, triaging urgent, life-and-death situations, and the opportunity to perform procedures. This combined residency is a dream come true for me and I’m overjoyed that Shabbos observance will be largely accommodated as I continue my medical training.”
