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TUSM Students Excel on Match Day 2008!

Nicole Johnson will be going to McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Illinois for a residency in pediatrics. Photo by Kelly and Massa.

Nicole Johnson will be going to McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Illinois for a residency in pediatrics.

Photo by Kelly and Massa.

At Match Day 2008, 174 Temple medical students learned where they will be going for the next step in their medical training, and most learned that they wouldn’t be going far: nearly 48 percent will be staying in Pennsylvania for their residency, with a quarter of those students staying here at Temple. Following last year’s trend, internal medicine continued to be the most popular selection; 26 percent of Temple medical students chose it.

Other excellent programs with which the students matched at top spots across the country: family medicine at Baylor, psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, primary medicine at Yale, anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai, and child neurology at Harvard.

Nationwide, 28,737 applicants vied for one of 22,240 first-year residency positions—the most applicants in history, according to the NRMP. Of those applicants, a record-high 15,242 were U.S. medical school seniors, 94.2 percent of whom successfully matched to a residency program, with 84.6 percent of those seniors matched to one of their top three program choices.

Temple University School of Medicine congratulates the Class of 2008 and all graduating seniors from medical universities as they make plans to begin their post-graduate training across the United States.

Enjoy some of the excitement and special moments of TUSM's Match Day 2008!

Photos by Kelly and Massa.

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By Renee Cree

renee.cree@temple.edu

March 25, 2008