On Match Day 2026, UNC School of Medicine fourth-year students opened Carolina Blue envelopes to find out where they will work as resident physicians over the next several years. In total, 209 medical students in the Class of 2026 found their matches. Below are the students who committed to service in primary care as part of the pre-existing accelerated Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training (FIRST) Program and the Kenan Rural Scholars Program.
Accelerated Students (FIRST Program / Community Health Training Program)
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Match Day 2026 inside Roper Hall. Nina Daneshvar – Internal Medicine; WakeMed Health and Hospitals (Raleigh, NC)
- Christiana Daniel – Pediatrics; UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Deepthi Gowrishankar – Internal Medicine/Pediatrics; UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Rob Hall – Internal Medicine; WakeMed Health and Hospitals (Raleigh, NC)
- Matthew Hutchens – Family Medicine; UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Gabrielle Jones – Internal Medicine; Mountain AHEC (Asheville, NC)
- Amara Nwangwu – Psychiatry; UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Cecilia Pankau – Family Medicine; Mountain AHEC (Asheville, NC)
Kenan Rural Scholars Program
- Anna Caffrey-Bottoms – Family Medicine; Mountain AHEC (Asheville, NC)
- Camil Craciunescu – Family Medicine; University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals (Chelan, WA)
- Drew Griggs – Family Medicine; Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education (Rochester, MN)
- Eliza Filene – Family Medicine; Mountain AHEC (Boone, NC)
- Anna Jones – Family Medicine; Mountain AHEC (Asheville, NC)
- Megan Koceja – Internal Medicine/Pediatrics; UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill, NC)
- Jack Leland – Internal Medicine; NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell – (New York, NY)
- Madison Thrailkill – Pediatrics; University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
- Rachel Watkins – Pediatrics; Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC)
- Kristen Williams – Internal Medicine; UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill, NC)
A special congratulations to these students!