*RUSM has a first-time residency attainment rate of 96%, calculated as the percent of students attaining a 2025-26 residency position out of graduates or expected graduates in 2024-25 who were active applicants in the 2025 NRMP match or who attained a residency position outside the NRMP match. AUC’s first-time residency attainment rate for 2024-2025 graduates and expected graduates is 95%. SABA’s four-year residency placement rate of 97% is calculated as the percent of students attaining a residency position out of all graduates or expected graduates in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 who were active applicants in the NRMP match or attained a residency outside the NRMP match. As of July 17, 2025, they have not published their 2025 rates. SGU’s US residency placement rate of 94% pertains to graduates over five years from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 with the rate calculated as the total number of students/graduates who obtained a US residency divided by the total number of students/graduates who applied to a US residency program in a given year as of April 2025.
Dean Emeritus Joseph Flaherty, MD
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Joseph Flaherty, MD was Dean Emeritus at Ross University School of Medicine from 2011 to 2017, after previously presiding as Dean at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, one of the largest medical schools in the US. During his tenure at RUSM, Dr. Flaherty created the 'One School, One Mission' initiative, streamlining and strengthening the student experience through their basic sciences and clinical training, helping them prepare for residency. Under his directed improvements in the student curriculum, RUSM began to dramatically flourish. Students began to consistently perform on par with US medical students and routinely place at competitive residencies at teaching hospitals across the US. Also, with his irrefutable reputation in the medical field, Dean Flaherty was able to help open doors to top teaching US hospitals to RUSM students.
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