Fourth-year medical students from the three WVU School of Medicine campuses will learn their residency placements during Match Day ceremonies scheduled for Friday (March 20) at the Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown, Edgewood Country Club in Charleston and The Sycamore at Stonebridge in Martinsburg. (WVU Photo/Davidson Chan)
WHO: Fourth-year medical students across the three West Virginia University School of Medicine campuses in Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg.
WHEN AND WHERE: Friday, March 20
• Erickson Alumni Center, 1 Alumni Drive, Morgantown (Morgantown and regional campus students)
11:30 a.m. — Match program
Noon — Envelope distribution
• Edgewood Country Club, 1600 Edgewood Drive, Charleston (Charleston Campus students)
10:30 a.m. — Class picture
10:45 a.m. — Brunch
Noon — Envelope distribution
• The Sycamore at Stonebridge, 1959 Golf Course Road, Martinsburg (Eastern Campus students)
11:30 a.m. — Opening remarks from deans, including Dr. Clay Marsh, chancellor and executive dean for WVU Health Sciences.
Noon — Envelope distribution and lunch
These events are ticketed and closed to the public.
NOTES: Match Day is the culmination of years of hard work for medical students nationwide. Many students consider it the most exciting day of the medical school experience — learning 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 a Nobel Prize in Economics 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, with the option to be joined by family members, and open their envelope to share their match destination with those in attendance.
On the Charleston and Eastern Campuses, 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
Executive Director, Communications and Marketing
WVU Health Sciences and 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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