The group uses a computer algorithm to align the choices of the applicants with those of the residency programs.ĭanica Lomeli hugs her father, Luis, while her mother, Diana, reacts to the news that Danica will be doing her residency at UCLA in family medicine. The tradition is both an exciting and somewhat stressful affair, with the residency assignments ultimately determined by a nonprofit organization, the National Resident Matching Program. Along with family, friends and faculty, the students arrived in dresses and heels, suits and ties - some with babies and proud parents in tow - to learn their future.
Lomeli and 90 other Stanford graduating medical students had gathered at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at the same time as thousands of other medical students across the country for the annual celebration that occurs each March. "You may now open the envelopes," Sibley said at exactly 9 a.m., after all the students had been handed a white envelope with their names printed on the outside.
"I vividly remember a beautiful spring day years ago in Baltimore when I went through this," said Eric Sibley, MD, PhD, the faculty adviser handing out this year's Match Day envelopes, Academy Awards-style, in a room filled with Stanford medical students anxiously awaiting the news of where they would be spending the next four to seven years of their lives as medical residents. Her mom, dad, brother, cousins and best friend glanced curiously at the envelope that would play an important role in shaping Lomeli's future - the result of years of hard work and sacrifice in her quest to become a family doctor. Today, just before 9 a.m., Danica Lomeli, 28, a soon-to-be MD, stood huddled with a crowd of family members, waiting to open the white envelope gripped in her shaking hands.
She will be doing a residency in pediatric neurology at Stanford. Sarah Bahm shows off her envelope at Match Day.
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