<p>Hi I have questions about med schools and beyond. I was wondering if when you graduate from college and take the MCAT, then you have to go to a med school. Then after med school is residency, but at which hospital do you do? the residency? Is it at any hospital you apply or the same hospital as your med school</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>You apply to a residency program, which is most commonly somewhere else from where you did medical school.</p>
<p>The application for residency is called the match program and is very different than applying to medical schools after college.</p>
<p>The place you do your residency at is determined by a stable matching algorithm, where in essence, it’s a mathematical formula that takes the first choices of med students and residency programs, and aligns them in such a way where most people will get their first choice for residency, but not all. However, you only get accepted to one place for residency, not multiple places.</p>
<p>@doctorH, depends on the specialty you’re going and eligible for. You apply for residency thru the match as @Jweinst1 describes above. On Match Day, you find out where you matched, and if you matched at all. </p>