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Match Day
Match Day
Through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), students
are assigned to a specific residency training program for the
following year. Each year in March, medical schools across the
country hold a ceremony known as Match Day where graduating
fourth year medical students learn where they will be training
in the coming years.
The following is an excerpt about the day
from our dean of students, Dr. David Henderson.
“Match Day is one of the highlights
of the academic year. It is clearly the most joyous day on the
academic calendar. There is very little that rivals the
celebratory air that characterizes the day, and the celebration
is shared by the entire medical school community. The day begins
with a great atmosphere of expectation. At 1 p.m. the drama is broken by a cacophony of
spontaneous expressions of delight as graduating seniors
simultaneously open envelopes that reveal where they will spend
the next crucial years of their lives. Match Day provides first,
second, and third year students a glimpse of their own future.
Faculty and family members alike share in the excitement. Match
Day is the culmination of four years of hard work and
uncertainty. It is the door that opens to the path to the next
stage of personal and professional development for graduating
seniors. It is an occasion for warm embraces and heartfelt
congratulations for work well done and expressions of confidence
in the achievement of expectations in the years to come.”
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