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Match Day 2015 - Penn State College of Medicine
Today, 120 fourth-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine learned where they will spend their residencies in an annual tradition known as Match Day. A similar scene played out...
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Amy Iarrobino and Erin Kane took two different paths to get to medical school, but they ended up on the same steps at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine on Friday, anxiously waiting to find out which residency program they would be going to.
It was "match day," when students at medical schools across the nation find out where they will be doing their residencies. Iarrobino and Kane, along with 72 other UCF College of Medicine seniors, got one step closer to their dream of becoming a doctor.
"Everything has felt like a step to get to this point, and I think it's probably the most nerve-racking," said Kane on Thursday before match day.
"It's not so much the anxiety-provoking kind of nervous, but knowing that I could make all these plans starting tomorrow. This is the next step."
Kane, now 31, was first an EMT/firefighter and later a floor manager at a casino in St. Louis before going to medical school.
This year's match was the largest on record, according to the National Resident Matching Program. Almost 17,000 seniors in allopathic medicine programs (M.D.) matched with a first-year residency program. More than half matched with their first choice.
At UCF College of Medicine, 74 of the 80 seniors matched with residency programs in a wide range of specialties from pediatrics to radiology and surgery, in locations ranging from Orlando Health and Florida Hospital to Johns Hopkins University, Harvard and Emory.
At Florida State University, which has a regional campus in Orlando, nearly 60 percent of the 113 students matched with a residency program in primary care.
On Friday, UCF senior medical students lined up on the steps of the medical school green in Lake Nona, in front of them small gold bags with an envelope inside, which was not to be opened until noon.
Their families and friends crowded the grass area, shooting photos and videos, forever remembering this day.
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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
Friday was the big day for Christian Pothering and his classmates, the first to graduate from Lehigh Valley Health Network's medical school program.
It was "match day" for fourth-year medical students across the country, which meant they would find out where they'd been assigned to complete their residency training.
Pothering, who grew up near Schnecksville and graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School in 2003, had a lot on the line. His wife just had a baby. He could be sent to Nebraska and forced to uproot his young family. Such was his nervous anticipation that he got only a couple of hours of sleep the night before.
"It's the fear of the unknown," he said. Though, he admitted, his trouble sleeping might have had something to do with "the screaming 3-week-old baby."
About 50 or so people gathered in the auditorium of LVHN's Mack Boulevard facility in Allentown for the network's match day event, which had something of an Oscars feel to it. When Pothering's name was called, he walked up front to receive the envelope containing his assignment. He quickly tore it open.
"Lehigh Valley Health Network," he announced to the crowd, which responded with hoots and applause. He wouldn't have to move after all. He could stay put, along with two of his classmates who also were paired with LVHN.
He was among eight medical students in the SELECT medical school program offered by LVHN in partnership with the University of South Florida in Tampa. Some of the 16 graduates attended match day in Florida. SELECT stands for scholarly excellent, leadership experiences and collaborative training.
Among their assignments were a number of nationally known institutions: the Cleveland Clinic, the Einstein/Jacoby Medical Center in New York City, the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in Minnesota.
LVHN partnered with USF to create the SELECT program four years ago. Through it, students earn their doctoral degrees as well as unique SELECT certification. They spend two of their four years of study in Florida and two in the Lehigh Valley.
The SELECT curriculum has been designed to develop some hard-to-quantify qualities, such as social awareness and empathy, that can help doctors understand and better serve patients, and navigate today's complex health-care industry, SELECT Associate Dean Robert Barraco said.
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Published: Saturday, 3/21/2015 - Updated: 16 hours ago
BY VANESSA McCRAY BLADE STAFF WRITER
The room full of fourth-year University of Toledo medical students crackled with tension as the physicians-to-be fixed their focus on four tables where carefully arranged envelopes contained their still-secret futures.
At noon Friday, 166 future doctors learned finally, after months of interviewing for residency programs where they would spend their next three to seven years.
After getting the signal, some ripped and others hesitantly peeled open the envelopes.
Squeals, cheers, tears, and so many hugs ensued.
This is the drama of Match Day, the thrilling, nationally coordinated culmination of medical school. Students and medical centers list their preferences, and the National Resident Matching Program uses a computer algorithm to match them up.
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The results are announced simultaneously across the country.
Thats my No. 1, said Jessica Chang, a medical student originally from Washington, as she displayed the notification that she will pursue plastic-surgery training at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. Ive never been out West before. Ive been Midwest. Ive been South. Ive been Northeast. California, California, baby.
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Newswise BOSTON (March 23, 2015) This years Match Day at Tufts celebrated the third cohort of students in the Maine Track MD program. A partnership between Tufts University School of Medicine and Maine Medical Center, the Maine Track MD program trains medical students interested in practicing medicine in underserved urban and rural communities in Maine where the shortage of physicians is acute. Match Day is when medical students across the country learn where they will begin their residency training following graduation this spring.
Of the 34 students in the Maine Track MD program, 24 (71%) matched in the primary care fields of family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics, while five (15%) matched in surgical specialties. Ten will be at residency programs in Maine, while others will be moving to West Virginia, Tennessee, Minnesota, California or other states.
Research shows that medical students who have experiences in primary care or rural settings are more likely to pursue careers in these areas, said Harris Berman, M.D., dean of Tufts University School of Medicine. The Maine Track MD students have an opportunity to practice in a community and experience what it is like to have a relationship with patients over nine months, much longer than is standard in medical school.
The Maine Track MD program includes an option for students in their third year to spend nine months practicing in small towns and rural communities. This Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship replaces the standard rotations through various medical specialties. The clerkship provides students with hands-on training in settings that combine training in rural practice as well as at a major medical center.
The campus for these students is the state of Maine, said Peter Bates, M.D., chief medical officer at Maine Medical Center and academic dean for the Maine Track MD program. Family practices, community hospitals, and Maine Medical Center all serve as training sites for these medical students. While not all graduates will match in Maine, their experiences in the Maine Track MD program will have far-reaching benefits for underserved communities in Maine. In addition, their residencies will give them a broader base of clinical experience, leading to improved care if they choose to practice here.
Most counties in the state of Maine have federally designated shortage areas in primary care (communities with more than 3,500 people per one doctor to provide care). The Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies estimates the U.S. will face a shortage of 45,000 primary care physicians and 46,100 surgeons and medical specialists by 2020.
The first class of 32 Maine Track MD students graduated in 2013. Ten of these graduates are in physician residency programs in Maine while the remaining are in Alaska, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Two are in the military. Sixteen (50%) of the first graduating class were selected into residencies in primary care, including seven in family medicine. Another seven are pursuing surgical specialties.
The second class of 29 students graduated in 2014 with four doing residencies in Maine while the remaining are in Colorado, Maryland, Alaska and other states. Thirteen (46%) of the Maine Track students are in residencies in primary care fields. Another five students are pursuing surgical specialties.
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Published: Friday, 3/20/2015 - Updated: 1 minute ago
BY VANESSA McCRAY BLADE STAFF WRITER
Anxiety gave way to applause today as 166 fourth-year University of Toledo medical school students learned where theyll serve their residency in a scene filled with whoops and cheers that played out simultaneously across the nation.
Match Day is the thrilling, grand-finale for medical students. Its when they find out where a computerized program run by the National Resident Matching Program has placed them to fulfill their residencies, which take three to seven years to complete depending on the students specialty.
Among the UT students who learned their residency match results today was Sonya Naganathan, daughter ofUTs interim president Nagi Naganathan, who will go to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, among her top choices.
Mr. Naganathan addressed students at Stranahan Theater just before they rushed from tables decorated with blue and gold balloons to the front of a room, where they picked up envelopes containing their results. He compared the excitement to the day his daughter was born.
I wish you all the very best, but you will always be part of the Rocket Nation, he said.
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Students were joined by family and friends at the event, stopping to snap photographs and confer with other students after ripping open, or sometimes hesitantly unsealing, their envelopes.
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Newswise MAYWOOD, Ill. -- On Friday, March 20, fourth-year medical school students learned where they will serve their hospital residencies. But with tight state and federal budgets, residency programs are being cut.
To practice in the U.S. all new physicians must complete residency programs in their chosen specialties. Because of program cuts, some medical school graduates will not find residency positions.
The Association of American Medical Colleges projects the US will face a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians by 2025. The shortage will be most severe among primary care physicians, and underserved patients will be the hardest hit.
Every day, people are unable to get needed care. This is unacceptable. Our nation desperately needs doctors, and we must make sure our student doctors get the opportunity to serve, especially those most in need, said Linda Brubaker, MD, MS, FACS, FACOG, dean and chief diversity officer of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Loyola is a leader in training medical students to care for patients who are often underserved or marginalized. Fifty-one percent of Loyolas 2015 graduating class will pursue residencies in primary care, up from 34 percent in 2014.
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If high drama is your kind of thing, the Virginia Tech-Carilion Medical School was the place to be. Friday, fourth-year medical students found out which residencies they've been selected for across the country.
The day is circled on everyone's calender: Match Day.
If medical school doesn't sound grueling enough, the wait from Monday to today sure is.
"At the first of the week, when they find out do they match with a position, and they did. And at exactly 12 o'clock, every place in the country, everybody finds out where they matched," said Dean Cynda Johnson.
"It's definitely a stressful process," student Carlie Blake said.
"Today is the culmination of four years of really hard work," Rohini Mehta added.
All these students have spent the past couple months picking a specialty and interviewing at the places across the country to practice them.
In a private ceremony, the students got those envelopes.
Dean Cynda Johnson says the sheer joy on their faces tells you everything you need to know.
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PHILADELPHIA The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the 18th year in a row. According to the annual medical school survey in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Schools" report, Penn Medicine is ranked #5 in the country.
The Perelman School of Medicine also ranked among the nation's top medical schools in five areas of specialty training, including a first place ranking in Pediatrics, and honors in Womens Health (#5), Drug/Alcohol Abuse (#6), Internal Medicine (#6), and AIDS (#7). The School of Medicine is also #12 in the rankings of Primary Care medical schools.
The 2014-2015 academic year marks an auspicious milestone in the history of the Perelman School of Medicine: its 250th birthday.
Its gratifying to see the Perelman School of Medicines continued recognition in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Being named among the top five medical schools in the country year after year is a testament to the stellar education that our faculty and staff provide for our students as they prepare for their careers in clinical medicine and biomedical research, said J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine. The nations first medical school continues to live up to its longstanding tradition of embodying the highest standards in education, research and patient care.
Established in 1765, Penn's School of Medicine which was renamed the Perelman School of Medicine following a landmark gift from Raymond and Ruth Perelman in 2011 is an internationally recognized leader in the discoveries that advance science and pave the way for new therapies and procedures to improve human health and is consistently among the nation's top three recipients of federal funding from the National Institutes of Health.
This winter, the school opened its new home for medical education, the Henry A. Jordan M62 Medical Education Center, a 55,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility just steps away from the Smilow Center for Translational Research and the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. It is among the first in the nation to fully integrate medical education facilities with active clinical care and research lab space, placing students in the midst of the dynamic practice of medicine.
The medical school rankings, released annually in the U.S. News & World Report "Best Graduate Schools" issue, are based on statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students. Information is obtained through surveys of program directors, academics, and other professionals. Criteria used in the rankings include peer assessment surveys, research activity, grade point averages, MCAT scores, and NIH funding.
The complete results of the survey are available online. For more information on the Perelman School of Medicine, see Penn Medicine Facts and Figures 2015.
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A year into his tenure as dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School, Dr. Brooks Jackson is working to revitalize a slipping institution.
With the governor expressing concern over the school's performance, Jackson is out to restore its days of research prominence, an era when the school was renowned for such breakthroughs as the first open-heart surgery and the vaccine for Lyme disease.
"We want to be really world-class," Jackson said. Having a world-class research and training program doesn't mean just prestige for the U, but also "new drugs, new vaccines and new medical devices that benefit all Minnesotans."
The new dean also wants to ensure the school can head off a looming shortage of physicians in various specialties and regions of the state. And he wants to nurture a sometimes difficult relationship with Fairview Health Services, which owns the university's hospital.
The slide in the school's reputation began arguably in the mid-1990s, around the time the National Institutes of Health sanctioned it following a series of financial scandals. Fiscal problems prompted the U to sell its teaching hospital to Fairview in 1997.
"Those same financial woes made it difficult to retain faculty," Jackson said. The NIH sanctions "required a lot of resources, and made it much more difficult for faculty to obtain grants, causing a number to leave and again making it more difficult to recruit."
The university slipped from the top 15 in the 1980s to 30th last year out of 144 schools in NIH grant funding, a ranking that many faculty and students consider a sign of excellence.
Meanwhile, the school suffered from a "malaise," according to a 2012 external review. Faculty, the report said, complained the U had "no consensus regarding [its] goals and aspirations."
The decline caught the attention of Gov. Mark Dayton, who last year established a committee, which includes Jackson, to find ways to improve the school.
The new dean says he aims to have the U in the top 20 of the NIH ranking within five years and the top 15 within a decade.
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Michael Kuhlenschmidt, a UI medical school student, sits outside the UI Medical Sciences Building in Urbana on Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Kuhlenschmidt will join other future doctors in finding out his residency this Friday.
URBANA First came a bachelor's degree in engineering. Then medical school.
Now Champaign-Urbana native Michael Kuhlenschmidt is waiting, with thousands of other U.S. medical school seniors set to graduate this spring, to find out about their next big career step where they'll go for their residencies.
The news will be delivered via personal letters at the same time Friday for all medical residency program applicants across the country which will be at 11 a.m. for those in the Central Time Zone.
Last year, more than 40,000 applicants competed for 29,000 residency positions in the U.S., and the match this year is expected to be larger, according to the National Resident Matching Program.
For the 29-year-old Kuhlenschmidt and his fellow students set to graduate from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, the envelopes will be delivered Friday morning in a ceremony at the Champaign Country Club.
At least a bit of the stress has been lifted for him and many others. Applicants were notified Monday whether they were selected for a match, though they still have to wait until Friday to find out where they'll be going.
"I did match, which is a good feeling," Kuhlenschmidt said.
Through the complicated system used, students rank their residency program choices and the residency programs rank their applicants, and all that information is run through a computerized mathematical algorithm, according to the match program.
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