Fourth-year medical students across the three West Virginia University School of Medicine campuses in Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg will learn their residency placements during Match Day Friday (March 21). (WVU Photo)
WHO: Fourth-year medical students across the three
West
Virginia University School
of Medicine campuses in
Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg
WHAT: Match Day is a national day when fourth-year medical students
learn where they will spend the next several years training as resident
physicians.
WHEN and
WHERE: Friday, March 21
- Erickson Alumni Center, 1 Alumni Drive, Morgantown (Morgantown and regional campus students)
10:15 a.m. — Reception
11:30 a.m. — Match program
Noon — Envelope distribution
- Edgewood Country Club, 1600 Edgewood Drive, Charleston (Charleston Campus students)
10:45 a.m. — Class photo
11 a.m. — Reception
Noon — Envelope distribution and ceremony
- Purple Iris, 1956 Winchester Ave., Martinsburg (Eastern Campus students)
11 a.m. — Reception
Noon — Envelope distribution and ceremony
These events are ticketed and closed to the public.
NOTES: Match
Day is the culmination of many years of hard work for medical students
nationwide. Many students consider it the most exciting day of the
medical school experience as they learn where they’ll complete their residency
training.
Up until Match
Day, final-year medical students complete numerous applications and interviews
at specialty residency programs of their choice.
Students rank the
places where they would like to continue their medical training. The residency
programs, in turn, rank the applicants. The information is entered into the
National Resident Matching Program, which uses and algorithm to produce a list
of “matches.”
The WVU Match Day
Celebration allows the graduating class to be joined by family, faculty, staff,
administrators and fellow students to share in the excitement.
On the Morgantown
Campus, envelopes are unveiled and drawn randomly. Each student will then have
the opportunity to step up to the podium and open their envelope to share their
match destination with those in attendance.
On the Charleston
Campus and Eastern Campus, students will open their envelopes at noon to learn
their match destinations. Due to the smaller class sizes at the regional
campuses, each student in attendance will have the option to announce their
match destination to those in attendance.
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MEDIA CONTACTS:
MORGANTOWN
Cassie Thomas
Communications and Marketing Director
WVU School of Medicine
304-376-1829; Cassie.Thomas@hsc.wvu.edu
CHARLESTON
Jeff Driggs
Communications
and Marketing Director
WVU School of
Medicine — Charleston
304-347-1283; jdriggs@hsc.wvu.edu
MARTINSBURG
Sam Haines
Communications
Specialist
WVU School of
Medicine — Eastern
304-612-9019; sthaines@hsc.wvu.edu
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