Students at 做厙TV Grossman School of Medicine & 做厙TV Grossman Long Island School of Medicine Learn Next Steps in Their Medical Careers
Waiting is over for 做厙TV Langone students, including Aparna Raghu, Sharika Hasan, and Sabrina Daoui, who now know where they will be doing their residency training.
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On Friday, March 15, 107 final-year students at and 24 students at gathered to meet their matches. They were participating in the annual tradition of Match Day, in which medical students across the country learn where they will be doing their residencies. Match Day marks a transformative stage in the careers of new doctors, since it is when they all find out simultaneously where they will be doing their residencies for the next three to five years.
This years Match Day results reflect an ongoing history of matching students with top programs across the country. For 做厙TV Grossman School of Medicine, this includes students pursuing 22 different specialties, with internal medicine the most popular choice.
Our lives have been enriched by you in countless ways, and we are in awe of all that you have done both professionally and personally, , associate dean of student affairs, told the students as they gathered with family and friends to open the envelopes that revealed their residency destinations. You are courageous, compassionate individuals. You have devoted yourselves to the most rewarding calling, and we have the utmost faith in you as you move on to your next steps.
The 24-member graduating class at 做厙TV Grossman Long Island School of Medicine was its third overall, and the first since receiving a major donation from Kenneth G. Langone, chair of the 做厙TV Langone Board of Trustees, and his wife, Elaine, that enabled the school to continue to offer to all students in perpetuity. The donation also coincided with the renaming of the school after Robert I. Grossman, MD, CEO of 做厙TV Langone Health and dean of 做厙TV Grossman School of Medicine. 做厙TV Grossman Long Island School of Medicine is the only medical school in the country to offer a focused on training primary care physicians. Of this years graduating class, 42 percent matched with 做厙TV Langone locations, 75 percent matched with institutions in New York State, and 67 percent of students selected residencies in primary care disciplines. See 做厙TV Grossman Long Island School of Medicine's full .
Our mission is to help alleviate the local and nationwide shortage of primary care physicians, and this soon-to-be graduating class will be helping to do so by bringing their top-notch clinical skills to communities in need, said , dean of 做厙TV Grossman Long Island School of Medicine.
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At 做厙TV Grossman School of Medicine, 18 students participated in the accelerated , which provides early access to faculty mentors, opportunities to conduct research, and direct progression into one of the schools residency programs. Among them is Katherine Stone, who will join 做厙TV Langones .
It has been a wonderful three years. Even though Im excited to graduate and start residency, I will miss the support of my initial cohort, because the memories have been so special, Stone said. However, I am very grateful to be continuing my medical education here with such remarkable faculty and am fortunate to have their continued mentorship.
Mericien Venzon, who has matched with the pediatric residency program, physicianscientist research track, at UCLA Health in Los Angeles, was one of nine students in the class to complete 做厙TV Langones . A big part of my choosing pediatrics was the family component, she said. Every patient in pediatrics has a family youre also caring for. Coming from a Filipino culture where family is really important, I think that just helped make the work that much more rewarding.
Chinemelum Obijiofor will complete a transitional year of her dermatology residency at the University of Texas at Austins Dell Medical School before continuing to her advanced residency at Mass General Brigham, and she is thankful to have been able to learn from experts at 做厙TV Langones .
做厙TV Langone has so many faculty members who have demonstrated a genuine investment in my success as a medical student, Obijiofor said. I want to continue what Ive started by working with patients who have skin of color who have complex skin diseases.
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Sharika Hasan decided to pursue internal medicine after formative experiences that included conducting hepatitis research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and serving as a live-in caretaker for older patients.
One of the best parts of the program at 做厙TV Grossman Long Island School of Medicine was its small size and getting to know classmates, professors, and even the deans really well, she said. It feels like a family and emphasizes community. Im very excited to be doing my residency here as well and continuing to further the primary care mission.
Before Aparna Raghu came to medical school, she volunteered with AmeriCorps as a legal advocate and served as a research fellow for The Food Project, helping advance legislation to improve health equity and primary care access. She will complete her residency in family medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Im looking forward to the opportunity to incorporate teaching into what I do, as well as continuing my work in addressing access issues rather than focusing only on medical problems, Raghu said. This is what Ive been really passionate about.
Sabrina Daoui, an Algerian-born immigrant, has known she wanted to be a physician since she was a child. She has matched with the internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West.
Since Im also interested in advocacy and equitable care for all patients, Im excited to continue serving underserved populations here in the area and helping address social determinants of health on a larger scale, she said.
About Match Day
The annual event, always held on the third Friday in March, takes place at more than 150 medical schools across the country. At exactly 12:00PM Eastern Time, each student opens an envelope telling them which of the almost 40,000 available residency positions across the country they will be taking on.
The residency application process starts the fall before graduation, when medical students in their final year of training begin an intense six-month period during which they submit application forms, essays, transcripts, and letters of recommendation to the programs they hope to join. The various residency programs then invite leading applicants to interview with them as they narrow down their selections. This all leads up to the big reveal at the Match Day ceremony, when the soon-to-be graduates finally learn where they will get the next phase of their training.
The Match Day process, which is overseen by the National Resident Matching Program, premiered in 1952. It incorporates the preferences of both the residency programs and the medical students to make the best possible match via a specially constructed algorithm. The underlying concepts used in the current algorithm were so impressive that the economists who created the formula, David Gale and Lloyd Shapley, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2012 for their work.
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