In a Bronx Times op-ed, Albert Einstein College of Medicine student Luna Maria Paredes shares her journey to medical school, including her experience with AMSNY’s state-funded Diversity in Medicine programs & scholarship. Paredes explains: “AMSNY said “We believe in you.” It was incredibly powerful and extremely motivating to be in an academic environment surrounded by people who look like me.” Learn more.

 

Fourth-year medical students around the country, including 128 at Albany Medical College, learned where they will continue their medical training today. The event, called Match Day, is a career-defining moment in a medical student’s life. Thirty-three students, or 26 percent, were matched to programs in New York State. Fifty-two percent of this year’s class will pursue primary care specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine, medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology. Learn more.

 

The CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) announced that their MD candidates will join medical school students throughout the country in learning where they have matched for their residencies. Match Day is run by the National Resident Matching Program, which releases results to applicants seeking residency positions in the United States. Learn more.

 

On March 17, 135 medical students at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons received life-changing news: the results of their residency match. Along with more than 40,000 medical students nationwide, VP&S students opened the envelopes containing their match letters at noon to discover where they will begin their residency training this summer. Learn more.

 

At noon today, March 17, 175 fourth-year students from Upstate Medical University’s Norton College of Medicine joined graduating medical students from across the country in learning where they will spend their first year of training (or residency) in their chosen specialty. This annual rite of passage, known as Match Day, was established in 1952 by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Learn more.

 

As the 2023 class of medical school students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai filled the Guggenheim Pavilion on Friday, March 17, the air was abuzz with smiles and hugs from familiar faces. The hour drew closer to noon, and the fourth-year students, along with tens of thousands of their peers across the country, awaited the arrival of a message that would mark the next phase of their medical careers: their residency program matches on Match Day. Learn more.

 

“This is one of the biggest milestones of all for our aspiring physicians,” said Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, UB’s vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, in addressing the assemblage of students, family, faculty and friends. “As we stand here together today … take a minute to breathe in and smile. You made it! You devoted long hours to studying medical science, learned the art of speaking to and treating patients, and completed many exams. You even persevered through a pandemic!” Learn more.

 

On March 17, the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (NYITCOM) Class of 2023 learned where they will spend the next several years completing their medical residencies after graduation. This year, NYITCOM achieved an impressive 100 percent match rate, with all members of the Class of 2023 placed into residencies. This is well above the 93.7 percent national average for M.D. seniors. Learn more.

 

Finding out where they will fulfill their medical residencies can be a wait and wonder experience for aspiring physicians. But on Match Day, students at NYU Long Island School of Medicine took part in the nationwide ceremony where future doctors learn the location of their residency. The 25-member Class of 2023 will be the second graduating class from the Mineola medical school, which recently received full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. The school is the only one in the country to offer Full-Tuition Scholarships for a three-year MD degree focused on training primary care physicians. Learn more.

 

At exactly 12:00PM on Friday, March 17, graduating students from NYU Grossman School of Medicine—all filled with anticipation—eagerly tore open envelopes that revealed the near and far cities and towns where they will continue their medical training. Match Day is an annual tradition where students graduating from medical schools across the country learn—on the same day and at the same time—the residency programs where they will begin their postgraduate training as doctors. Learn more.

 

Members of the New York Medical College (NYMC) School of Medicine Class of 2023 celebrated taking their next step in their medical training on Match Day when they gathered in the lobby of the Medical Education Center to learn where they were matched to medical residency programs. At precisely noon on March 17, with the atmosphere rife with anticipation, the students were at last able to tear open their envelopes and learn their match results. NYMC once again had a 99 percent match rate for the Class of 2023. Learn more.

 

At noon on Friday, March 17, aspiring doctors from across the country opened envelopes. Inside, students learned which institution they will train at as residents. It was the annual Match Day ceremony and at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry cheers, hugs, and tears filled the Class of ’62 Auditorium as medical students and their loved ones shared this moment. Learn more.

 

The occasion was “Match Day”, the annual ritual where graduating students from around the country open envelopes or go online at the same time to find out where they were matched by the National Resident Matching Program. By day’s end, all of Middletown’s 131 students were successfully matched and Harlem was not far behind, with 111 of its 113 students matched. Learn more.

 

Chimsom Orakwue imagined life as a doctor for as long as she can remember. It is the thread that connected her childhood to high school to college and, four years ago, to Weill Cornell Medicine. Now a graduating medical student, Orakwue on March 17 reached a milestone that brought her ever closer to attaining her goal: learning where she would complete her residency training. Unsealing an envelope that contained that news, she read with disbelief that she matched to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center for internal medicine, her top choice. Learn more.

 

Graduating students at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell learned where they would spend the next phase of their medical training during the school’s Match Day ceremony on Friday, March 17, 2023. Clutching small white envelopes containing their “match,” the ninety-one graduating students that make up the Class of 2023 eagerly awaited the stroke of noon, the time all medical students nationwide open a personalized letter from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) revealing their residency results. Learn more.

 

This February marked a milestone for Neil Schluger, M.D., the Barbara and William Rosenthal Chairman of the Department of Medicine and professor of medicine at New York Medical College, as he traveled to Ethiopia to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the East African Training Initiative (EATI), which he founded with colleagues in 2013. The two-year fellowship training program in pulmonary and critical care medicine is the first training program of its kind in Ethiopia and the broader East African region. Learn more.

 

Nearly 200 applicants accepted to the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons visited Washington Heights last week for “Life at VP&S,” a two-day event offering applicants a window into what they can expect if they choose to attend VP&S for medical school. This was the largest group hosted to date for this event, which was held in person for the first time since 2019. Learn more.

 

Angela Khidhir, DO, a trainee in the Department of Medicine’s internal medicine residency program, won first place in the 2022 Shark Tank Challenge sponsored by the New York State Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (ACC).Participants had to submit an idea for an innovation in cardiology. Khidhir was selected as one of five finalists who presented their idea in front of a panel of judges onboard the Cloud Nine IV Yacht Dec. 9 in New York City. Learn more.

 

“I want to go to outer space so, so bad! I believe it is possible for me,” says Elianna Sanchez. The first-year College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) student might have a fascination with the stars, but her feet are planted firmly on Earth, where she has a different fascination. “I am interested in serving diverse communities in urban areas,” she says. Learn more.

 

Bershad knows first-hand the reality that many pediatric asthma patients don’t always know how to communicate their symptoms to their parents or providers. This problem led him and his Hackathon team – named “Mixed Bag” – to create an innovative solution in the form of AiroCare, a smart monitoring device for asthmatic symptoms. It attaches directly to a nebulizer, collecting data on lung performance in real time before sending it to an app that a physician can easily access. Learn more.

 

Dorothy Lane, MD, MPH, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Vice Chair of the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, and Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education in the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) at Stony Brook University, has received the 2023 Ronald Davis Special Recognition Award from the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM). She is a founding member of the faculty of Stony Brook’s medical school, which she joined in August 1971. Learn more.

 

Reena Karani, MD, MHPE, Director of the Institute for Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was recently elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), becoming the first woman of color to serve in this role in the organization’s 108-year history. The nonprofit organization develops and administers state-of-the-art assessment tools for health professionals across the continuum of education, training, and practice. Learn more.

 

Gladys Ayala, MD, serves as dean and chief academic officer of NYU Long Island School of Medicine in Mineola, N.Y. During her time as vice dean, she led the school’s strategic planning process. She has also taught as a professor of medicine at the school and has been a medical educator since 1994. Before coming to NYU Long Island, she was vice chancellor for university student affairs and interim vice dean at New York Medical College’s School of Medicine in Valhalla. Learn more.

 

On Monday, March 27, 2023, nearly 40 fourth-year medical students, faculty, residents and fellows from the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell were prestigiously inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society. AOA is a professional medical organization that recognizes and advocates for excellence in scholarship and the highest ideals in the profession of medicine. Learn more.