Students celebrate 'Match Day' at Boston University

New docs heading to north state

CHICO — Meet the new docs, not quite the same as the old docs. Culminating an annual tradition in medical education known as Match Day, when physicians in training and facilities that complete their training come together (or “match), four residents in family medicine and four more in psychiatry learned the community where they’ll spend the next few years. In turn, the community got to learn about them. The next wave of psychiatric residents con…

Students celebrate 'Match Day' at Boston University

The third Friday in March all across the U.S. is Match Day, where medical students find out which residency program they will be attending.

Medical students at Quinnipiac University celebrate Match Day

Students of Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter School of Medicine celebrated Match Day on Friday. Match Day is the day when students find out where they will complete their residencies as part of their medical journey. This year, there were more than 80 students, including 27 from Connecticut. Frank Tavarez-Mora was one of the many graduate students. He anxiously waited alongside his significant other and family to receive the envelope that…

Match Day 2025: Safeguarding the future of medical students amid crisis

Janet A. Jokela, an infectious disease physician, discusses her article, "Match Day 2025: Protecting our students' futures." She explores the unprecedented challenges facing medical students, including a U.S. measles outbreak, censorship at the CDC, disrupted research grants, and threats to biomedical research and public health infrastructure. Janet emphasizes physicians' responsibility to support graduating students and their future patients, h…