More than 100 future doctors from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine found out where they will be headed next.

SCRANTON, Pa. — The air inside Riverfront Sports Complex in Scranton is thick with anticipation as more than 100 students from the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine get ready to find out where they will spend the next three to seven years of their lives.

“This is the day they get the job. It’s sort of like a, you know, a professionals sports draft,” said Julie Byerley, Geisinger College of Health Sciences President. “They get to find out how they’ll get to use all the work that they’ve put in to make the world a better place as a doctor.”

For Courtney Chambers, this moment is one he’s waited on for a lifetime, knowing since he was a little boy he wanted to get into medicine, specifically urology, one of the toughest specialties to master.

“My grandmother, for example, I used to watch her all the time when I was younger, check her blood sugar because she has diabetes, and just the ability to interact with patients mixed with the knowledge of science combined together made me really want to do medicine,” explained Chambers.

On this match day, Chambers saw the culmination of all of his hard work pay off. He matched with his number one school, Stony Brook University in New York.

“It was a sense of disbelief because again, it’s a very competitive specialty, and not a lot of people get their number one.”

Chambers was not the only one who got their number one pick. Couple Kevin Lynch and Kristen Denniston are headed to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

“As someone going into a couples match, the process can be really stressful,” said Kristen Denniston, pediatrics. “We have to rank a lot of places, but our school is super supportive, and I think it made it even better going through all of this anticipation and support with Kevin, as well as the entire school and our community as a whole.”

“We’ve been through so much, and it’s amazing to see it all pay off, so I’m just so excited,” said Kevin Lynch, anesthesiology.

A feeling many at the event can relate to.