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Match Day sends future docs across state, US to next phase in their careers this Friday
MADISON, Wis. — Nearly 170 soon-to-be resident physicians will find out Friday where they’ll spend the next several years of medical training.
Medical students at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health will open their envelopes and learn their futures in front of family and friends on Friday, March 18, starting at 11 a.m. The formal program begins at 10 a.m. This year’s event will be held at Shannon Hall in the Memorial Union Theater. The event is open to students and their friends and family, as well as faculty and staff. The event is not open to the public.
During Match Day — an event held at every medical school in the nation on this day — students come to the microphone and announce the location of their individual residencies, which they themselves are learning for the first time. These soon-to-be doctors are matched to their residency sites based on a computer-matching program linking student preferences with available options.
Among those who will tear open their envelopes are 25 students in the Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine (WARM), which trains students in rural areas of the state. Approximately 14 students from the Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH) program will take part in Match Day as well. TRIUMPH prepares medical students for working in underserved urban areas and provides most of its third- and fourth-year training in the greater Milwaukee area.
Also, nine students who are earning their MD and PhD in the Medical Sciences Training (MSTP) program will match Friday. MSTP is funded by the National Institutes of Health, and is designed to create the next generation of physician scientists.
