It's a match?
129 medical students participated in the annual resident Match Day at MUSC. The event is organized by the National Resident Matching Program. The vast majority of the graduating students were matched with programs among their top choices.
Fourth-year
College of Medicine students Silvia Heise and Thomas Sims were all smiles
after affirming their residency results from Match Day held March 20 in
the Basic Science Building Auditorium. The engaged couple matched residencies
at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. Heise will begin a pediatric
residency while Sims was selected in the general surgery program.
Almost half of MUSC's students are going into the primary care fields of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and OB/GYN.
The largest number of graduates are staying at MUSC to continue their education, but students are heading all over the country to some of America's most notable universities such as Johns Hopkins, Duke, Alabama Birmingham, North Carolina, Vanderbilt, Harvard and Yale. A relatively large number of students are headed to Nashville, where 14 will be residents at Vanderbilt University Hospitals and Clinics. MUSC also did well in the match, filling all positions.
“Most of our students have been selected to continue their education
at the programs of their choice,” said Jerry Reves, M.D., dean of the College
of Medicine. “This reflects well on them and our nation's future physicians
and well on our faculty and staff who have prepared them to compete successfully
nationally.”
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