Medical school students learn their futures at Match Day

Posted March 27, 2016 11:00 pm

At Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science's annual Match Day event, Chicago Medical School student Elizabeth Caudill places a pin on the map in North Carolina, where she will train in an emergency medicine residency at Wake Forest Hospital. Courtesy of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

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The Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science celebrated Match Day 2016 on March 18 along with more than 42,000 fourth-year medical students across the nation who vied for 30,750 residency positions, according to the National Residency Matching Program.

Match Day is an annual rite of passage for medical school seniors across the country, who tear into envelopes at 11 a.m. CST to discover where they will train for the next three to seven years. Ninety seven percent of the CMS Class of 2016 - 186 students - matched into top residencies across the country. The match rate for senior medical students across the U.S. is 94 percent.

"It's four years, one envelope," said Dr. James Record, Chicago Medical School acting dean. "This is a special match, and one of the best in Chicago Medical School history."

The community-based CMS, which trains students to work in interprofessional teams and sends them to clinical rotations in a variety of health care settings, including hospitals and clinics across Chicagoland and Wisconsin, prepares future physicians to practice under new models of care that stress prevention, wellness and medical homes.

"I'm super excited," said Elizabeth Caudill of Chicago, an Army veteran of the Iraq War, who matched into an emergency medical residency at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C.

"There are a lot of challenges ahead," she said. "In emergency medicine we see so many people who have no primary care. We have to get primary care for everyone."

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Maya Rolfe celebrates after learning she matched to an obstetrics-gynecology residency at Mercy Hospital in Chicago. Courtesy of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Denise Nunez, center, celebrates after learning she'll spend her residency in child neurology in her native New York during the annual Match Day ceremony on March 18. Courtesy of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

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