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March 25, 2002
Fourth-years Meet Their Match
Outside the Registrar's Office was the place to be at midday March 21 for distribution of the envelopes giving fourth-year medical students their residency assignments. Out of a total of 157 fourth-years, 152 chose a clinical program, and of those 152, 71 (47 percent) will enter an internship at HMS. Nearly half the graduates will remain in Massachusetts (49 percent) while 19 percent will go to California and 13 percent to New York City. The specialty that gained the most HMS graduates over last year was radiology. The most popular specialties among graduates were internal medicine (30 percent), pediatrics (10 percent), radiology (8 percent), and general surgery (8 percent). Below is a gallery of the event.
Jasmine Hayes rejoices at finding out that she matched at the University of Southern California, while Anthony McCluney, who will spend his surgical residency at MGH, looks on.
Celeste Morley, overjoyed to have matched at Duke, celebrates with Linda Burnley of the MD-PhD program.
Larissa Meyer and Kristofer Charleton-Ouw, who will spend their residencies together at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, are joined by Jean Raphael (right), HMS 2001.
Omar Sahagun and Lynn Sosa congratulate each other on matching at MGH.
All photos by Liza Green, HMS Media Services