On Match Day 2015, University of Vermont Medical School students found matches made in heaven. For one couple of engaged young doctors, it was a matching pair, as they learned they were headed to Johns Hopkins. And there could only be one match for "Highlander" actor turned-doctor, Peter Wingfield, as he prepared to head back to California for a residency program at UC San Diego.

In total, 112 fourth-year UVM med students were sorted into residency programs, where theyll spend the next three to seven years.

This is the culmination of 4 years putting together knowledge, clinical skills, humanism, professionalism into basically giving medical students their first job, said Dr. Lewis First, chairman of the UVM Med School Department of Pediatrics.

Jericho native Liz Abernathy is going into pediatrics.

I love kids, I love their families, said Abernathy.

She also happens to be Deaf.

There is a growing sector of the medical community that has hearing loss of some form, said Abernathy.

The college says Abernathy is the first known Deaf medical student. Along the way, shes gotten help to level the playing field, like using a sign language interpreter in lectures, and a special electronic stethoscope when working with patients.

The sound is delivered through the headphones, said Abernathy.

She says using her stethoscope can be a challenge in cases where being sterile is especially crucial, and hospital rooms have a specific one for physicians to use, but shes found a way around it.

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UVM medical student signing through school has high hopes on Match Day