Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 Hundreds of medical students took a major step forward in their careers during National Match Day.<\/p>\n
Students from the University of Rochester, Rochester Regional Health and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) opened letters Friday revealing the name of the institution they’ll spend the next few years in residency program placements.<\/p>\n
PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Medical students step into careers during ‘Match Day’<\/a> | University of Rochester graduate students “match” with future residency programs<\/a><\/p>\n Some students will stay here in Rochester, while others will move around the country.<\/p>\n “I’m staying here at the University of Rochester,” said Ibrahim Jalal, who matched with the U of R. “I’ll be doing neurosurgery here at Strong Memorial Hospital.”<\/p>\n “I’m beyond thrilled. I have a lot of mentors here, my family in the area, and I couldn’t be happier to stay here in Rochester,” Jalal continued.<\/p>\n Match Day is an annual, nationwide event held the third Friday of every March. It’s not only critical for the future health care professionals, but also local health care organizations, with their placements directly affecting access to care.<\/p>\n Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n “I feel really well prepared,” said Caroline Cody, who matched with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “I’ve done a lot of different pediatric dissertations, and I’m excited to actually be going to one of the programs that I actually did my training at.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 Hundreds of medical students took a major step forward in their careers during National Match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-538053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}