Students learn their future at Match Day: 3/22

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Students learn their future at Match Day

Fourth-year College of Medicine students, dressed in tunics, laurel wreaths and Roman dress, participated in this year's Class of 2013 Residency Match Day at the Charleston Music Hall March 15.

The toga-clad family of student Travis Patterson, center, approaches the podium to unveil his residency match through the National Resident Matching Program. Patterson matched to an orthopaedic surgery residency at MUSC.

The theme reflected the Ides of March, originally celebrated in ancient Rome recognizing new year celebrations.
This year's results matched 157 graduating seniors to medical specialties including family medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, ophthalmology and other specialties.

Stephen Ramey and his wife, Brandy, react to their match results.

About 27 percent of those students will be doing part of their residency training at MUSC and throughout the state. For example, Stephen Ramey matched to a radiation oncology residency at Jacksonville Memorial Hospital in Florida with a preliminary year at MUSC. Students also matched to other institutions including Massachusetts General, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Emory and Yale.

Friday, March 22, 2013

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