Published: Saturday, 3\/21\/2015 - Updated: 16 hours ago <\/p>\n
BY VANESSA McCRAY BLADE STAFF WRITER <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
After getting the signal, some ripped and others hesitantly peeled open the envelopes. <\/p>\n
Squeals, cheers, tears, and so many hugs ensued. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
PHOTO GALLERY: Click here for more photos from the ceremony <\/p>\n
The results are announced simultaneously across the country. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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