{"id":111811,"date":"2023-03-17T16:29:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=111811"},"modified":"2023-03-22T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:45:53","slug":"medical-students-find-their-future-in-a-match-day-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2023\/03\/17\/medical-students-find-their-future-in-a-match-day-envelope\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Students Find Their Future in a Match Day Envelope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-celebration-2023-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"two students smiling and celebrating match day holding I matched signs arms raised\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-111820\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-celebration-2023-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-celebration-2023-636x416.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-celebration-2023-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-celebration-2023-1536x1005.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-celebration-2023-2048x1340.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like her peers, fourth-year medical student Kenya Homsley felt nervous as she stood in front of the rows of long white envelopes laid out on banquet tables. In a 71-year-old ritual known as Match Day, at the stroke of noon, she and tens of thousands of medical school students nationwide opened the envelopes that told them where they would be spending the next four to seven years, learning their specialty in a hospital or other medical setting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=1MlnSf0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeep down, even with all the nerves, I do feel like I\u2019m ready. There\u2019s so much more to learn, but I\u2019m right where I\u2019m supposed to be,\u201d said Homsley, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, who matched with her first choice in obstetrics and gynecology at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/MatchDay_Classslide-2023-1024x575.png\" alt=\"MD graduating class of 2023 on front steps of instructional building\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-111813\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/MatchDay_Classslide-2023-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/MatchDay_Classslide-2023-636x357.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/MatchDay_Classslide-2023-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/MatchDay_Classslide-2023-1536x863.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/MatchDay_Classslide-2023.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Match Day traditionally occurs on the third Friday in March and uses an algorithm to match medical students to residency programs based on preference lists developed by both the students and the schools through an intense application and interview process. Programs are located in a medical facility with the resident diagnosing, managing care and treating patients in their specialty under supervision with increasing responsibility as the years progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will now be at the front lines. You will be the doctor that the patient will trust,\u201d said Priya Garg, MD, associate dean for medical education, urging students that as residents and physicians they remember the social mission that drew many of them to the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of you came in here loving social justice, equity. That was your journey to us, that\u2019s been your journey with us,\u201d Garg said. \u201cDo not forget your role in changing the way medicine will be forever. Use your voices and the power you have as a doctor.\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-by-State-2023-1024x576.png\" alt=\"map of continental US with numbers designating student residencies in state\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-111812\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-by-State-2023-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-by-State-2023-636x358.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-by-State-2023-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-by-State-2023-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-by-State-2023.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the faculty, I am delighted to congratulate you on reaching your Match Day,\u201d said Dean Karen Antman, MD. \u201cMost of you arrived at medical school in August 2019. You had a pretty conventional medical education for the first semester and a half, through February 2020, anyway\u2026then COVID upended your education starting with studying for and taking the Step 1 exam. Your clerkships were a totally unique experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to medicine, you learned flexibility and creativity \u2013 important skills in medicine \u2013 as well as disaster management, up close and personal.\u201d Antman continued. \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure your generation of physicians will be distinctive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-day-2023-top-program-Stats-636x405.jpg\" alt=\"Top programs where students are going to residency\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111826 aligncenter\" width=\"636\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-day-2023-top-program-Stats-636x405.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-day-2023-top-program-Stats-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/Match-day-2023-top-program-Stats.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jyla Hicks is from Ohio and graduated from North Carolina Central University. She said she came to the school to work with underrepresented and marginalized patient populations and was happy to have matched in internal medicine with BU\u2019s primary teaching affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.org\/\">Boston Medical Center<\/a> (BMC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust to have the privilege to continue to serve those systematically marginalized populations is my goal,\u201d said Hicks. \u201cI know, especially with the minority populations, it\u2019s really important for patients to see providers who look like them, so I love that I\u2019m adding diversity to the already diverse Boston Medical Center staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a point in his medical school education where Madhav Sambhu thought he may not have what it takes to be a doctor. But he took an extra year, switched his focus to neurology, and found mentors and family support that kept him motivated and hopeful. Even though he was nervous on Match Day, he knew he had persevered, matching at Emory University Hospital in his hometown of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI struggled a lot and I think there was a point at which I didn\u2019t know if I was going to be a doctor and today was the day I realized it was possible, that I\u2019m going to do this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Wilson from Long Island, New York, has been at Boston University as an undergraduate and medical student for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to be going back home after such a long, long time,\u201d said Wilson who learned she had been matched in internal medicine with New York University Grossman School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, during that hour waiting to open up your envelope, that\u2019s when your nervousness peaks,\u201d she said. Wilson was looking forward to working in a city hospital with similar clientele to those she\u2019d experienced at BMC.<\/p>\n<p>Following graduation in May, 37 medical students will be staying in Massachusetts, including 18 at BMC, five at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, four at Massachusetts General Hospital, \u00a0two each at Brigham &amp; Women\u2019s Hospital, Children\u2019s Hospital Boston, UMass Chan Medical School, and Tufts Medical Center, and one each at Cambridge Health Alliance and St. Elizabeth\u2019s Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-2023-PrimaryCare-stats-636x244.jpg\" alt=\"Graph of primary care statistics\" class=\"wp-image-111825 alignright\" width=\"402\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-2023-PrimaryCare-stats-636x244.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2023\/03\/match-day-2023-PrimaryCare-stats.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>New York (22), California (17), and Connecticut (10) were the next most popular states. The class matched in a range of programs, with the top specialties being internal medicine (32), anesthesiology, pediatrics, and general surgery (13 each), emergency medicine and neurology (11 each).<\/p>\n<p>During Match Day festivities Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, was announced as the convocation speaker for the MD\/PhD ceremony, and the MD class of 2023 selected Divya Satishchandra as their student speaker.<\/p>\n<p>See more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?vanity=BUMedicine&amp;set=a.591909072973437\">Facebook album<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual ritual matching students with residency programs is a test of nerves with a payoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157,91,123,156],"tags":[331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111811"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111992,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111811\/revisions\/111992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}