Published: Friday, 3\/20\/2015 - Updated: 1 minute ago <\/p>\n
BY VANESSA McCRAY BLADE STAFF WRITER <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
I wish you all the very best, but you will always be part of the Rocket Nation, he said. <\/p>\n
PHOTO GALLERY: Click here for more photos from the ceremony <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
So many hugs ensued. <\/p>\n
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