Medical Students Gather for Excitement of Match Day 2014
Match Day may be the most exciting and decisive moment in the lives of fourth-year medical students – it is when they learn where they will spend the next four or five years of their lives training as resident physicians.
The event is orchestrated by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), so that students across the United States open their envelopes at exactly the same time. This year, UC San Francisco students gathered with friends and family at Millberry Union on the Parnassus campus to open their envelopes together at 9 a.m. PDT on March 21.
Nationally, more than 16,000 U.S. medical school seniors matched to first-year residency programs and about 54 percent of them were placed at their first-choice locations in 2014, according to the NRMP.
Slideshow photos by Elisabeth Fall/falltoto.com
Students stream into Millberry Union to pick up their Match Day envelopes on the morning of March 21.
To break up the tension of the day, many of the students dressed up in costumes, including Gabe Sudario (center in green) who landed a residency at UCSF. “I could not be happier with where I matched, and am so excited to go on this adventure with these amazing people,” Sudario said.
Onouwem “Ono” Nseyo (right), who matched at UCSF, shares the good news with her mentor, Carol Miller (center), MD, and friend Brittni Johnson. “Surrounded by loving classmates, my sister and my best friends from undergrad, I am beyond pleased that I get to continue to be a part of they UCSF community for four more years," Nseyo said.
Mike Hunihan and Jordan Wolfe successfully matched as a couple. “Mike and I both matched with the Brown Emergency Medicine program, and we are just overwhelmed with excitement! Getting to The Match has been a long and crazy journey for us, and we are so grateful for the outstanding advisement and support UCSF has offered us along the way," said Wolfe.
”Match Day was a realization of dreams come true, and to celebrate this moment with the UCSF faculty and our loved ones was incredible. I continue everyday to be humbled by my classmates, and today was no exception,” said Neha Shirish Joshi (right), who will be heading to Stanford for a pediatrics residency. She and classmate Keshav Khanijow colored in a poster promoting organ donation to illustrate the "Perfect Match."
Chinwe Onu (left) poses with Chemtai Mungo, who graduated from UCSF in 2013 and is pursuing an MPH at Johns Hopkins University before starting her residency at Kaiser San Francisco. "It's a dream come true! I'm going to be an OBGYN!" Mungo said.
Mat Kladney and Joelle Birnberg celebrate in front of the UCSF Medical Center. "I could not be more thrilled to match into Kaiser Napa-Solano's new Family Medicine Residency Program! The faculty are energetic and it's an amazing opportunity to have the chance to help construct a new family medicine residency from the ground up," said Birnberg.
“I’m so excited to be able to go and take care of patients out in the community,” said Elise Taylor, who matched at Kaiser Napa-Solano's new family medicine program.