UCF med students find out where they will do their residencies

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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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UVM medical student signing through school has high hopes on Match 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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Match day for LVHN and St. Luke's medical students

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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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UT medical students' next step

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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.

PHOTO GALLERY: Click here for more photos from the ceremony

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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2015 ACHA D2 National Championships Game 4: LIBERTY vs GRAND VALLEY ST – Video

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Liberty women fall to UNC 71-65 in NCAA 1st round

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Liberty kept chipping away at North Carolinas lead. But every time the Flames got too close, something went wrong.

Turnovers at inopportune times and some key missed shots and defensive breakdowns led to Libertys 71-65 loss to the Tar Heels on Saturday in the first round of the Greensboro Regional.

Ashley Rininger had 19 points and 13 rebounds for the Flames (26-7), who were trying to become the second No. 13 seed to win a tournament game.

I think all of us felt it, guard Emily Frazier said. We knew we had to battle every single time, every single board. We kind of saw that coming together in that stretch. We just didnt capitalize.

They trailed by 14 but chipped away at North Carolinas lead down the stretch, pulling to 65-59 on Jaymee Fisher-Davis 3-pointer with 1:02 left.

Latifah Coleman followed with a driving layup with 40.5 seconds to play before Frazier hit a free throw with 26.9 seconds remaining to make it a seven-point game.

Brittany Rountree made it 69-60 with two free throws with 25.2 seconds left.

Karly Buer had 14 points for Liberty, which had its 14-game winning streak snapped. The Flames - making their 16th NCAA appearance in 19 years - were denied both their first NCAA Tournament victory and their first win over a Top 25 opponent since 2005.

Right now were on top of the wave and well see how that turns out, coach Carey Green said of the exposure the tournament brings. If youre not in the dance, if youre not in the 64, nobody sees you.

Allisha Gray scored 17 points and Latifah Coleman had 15 for the fourth-seeded Tar Heels (25-8), who shot 49 percent in giving Hall of Fame coach Sylvia Hatchell a victory in her return to the NCAA Tournament after a year away to fight leukemia.

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