thank you let's get these festivities started we're on a tight timeline my name's bill jeffries on the senior associate dean for medical education here at the lerner college of medicine and in case you haven't noticed this is match day and this is a class of twenty eight and medically qualified bagpiper acknowledge that we have in addition to the people here we have a lot of folks who are watching online through our live stream and we have our affiliates in danbury norwalk queens know i'm a i'm an avid picture to met a really a photographer but i had to take a lot of pictures and i want to get one one shot of this class and you can't move because it's going to be a panorama if you move in your ok the end of that now so i have i have several prepared remarks no never mind i don't you know i don't really have that i mean nobody cares what i have to say because we're here to match but there are people who eileen is the president and chief operating officer of the university of vermont medical center and this is her first match today so she's just taken out just why she got crossed over in the corner  here so class of two thousand and eighteen your face a lot of revelations in your career in medicine though this certainly may be the most public of those of those sorts of the events and this is a big moment for you and a big moment for all of us here at the college who helped to prepare you in various ways for this day it's especially meaningful to me this year as it's my last last match day as dean so i share wit you the curiosity about what the future may bring in a more personal way than i have ever had had done before it is of that so and along with all of it is really an honor for me to stand here with you know you all today and with your families today this this is one of my favorite events at the university it's right up there with our with our may commencement of convocation or twenty and this really starts a whole season of university and in this great learner college of medicine and your faculty and your staff and your fellow students walked alongside you from the moment that you started your medical education of vermont and today they're all joining you in the excitement and in the celebration you know that education and service are cornerstones of our mission at the university of vermont and each of you is a testament to the strength of our programming throughout your time at the university of vermont you've dedicated yourselves to your studies and you've given of yourself to individually and as a class to our university community to our local communities and for many of you to international community this giving of your time and your energy and your knowledge and care is a hallmark both of the university of vermont and of course the medical profession so in that way you all are twice blessed so i want to thank you for your contributions i know you'll continue to give in to give back as your medical medical careers commence and i promise that city of vermont and i  provost of the state we will follow your progress with great pride with great anticipation and with great admiration we are enormously proud of you and i'm confident that everyone in the mighty class of the learner college of medicine twenty eighteen will go on to do really great things and really important things you'll achieve scientific and medical breakthroughs you'll save lives you'll hear you'll protect and you prove the quality of life for so many people and in doing that you're going to inspire the next generation of scientists and doctors so wherever your match takes you know that you will always be part of the university of vermont and that the university of vermont i hope will always be a part of you you have my very best wishes and congratulations walking into method two hundred in the fall of two thousand and sixteen i was greeted by a sea of smiling faces any previously noted fear replaced with a hint of confidence and having successfully navigated the first  i quickly came to appreciate your dedication to learning and stood by and watched as you kept your head down and sold it through the relentless pace of new information as the biggest obstacle to date step one came in when you developed a new focus on the difficult task of learning clinical medicine and for the first time perhaps appreciated that this was an even bigger challenge than anything in the classroom but you were ready to rise to the occasion a rise you did with a new willingness to accept and begin and appreciate that there was one more than one right answer or best powerful lessons that served you well as you planned your future career in medicine charged with a difficult task  matching skill with passion and as you stand here today you are ready to learn of your next adventure but before you do i'd like to share a secret well the faculty here at the v m larner college of medicine have taught you many things you perhaps have taught us more through your actions we have learned that you will one day master e k g s we all just need to have a little thing that life is a journey not a destination and having the courage and resilience to face changed makes all of us wants to and that coupling enthusiasm in compassion with raw talent really can change the world one colleague and one patient at a time and it is perhaps this lesson learned from all of you that makes me proud asst to be part of this community and has given me a new kind of hope for the future as susan colvin recently wrote in a perspective published in the new england journal of medicine sometimes you will try hard and study hard but your patient will get sick and die anyway what will make each of you a great physician is not your ability to cure so hard to get through this without crying but i kinda entertaining so when i was thinking about what i wanted to say today i was overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude there's so many people that we as a class are indebted to i could go on and on and keep talking that's my oscar speech i have so many people think but there's a few that i want to highlight and i think that all of us want to think and the first person is so personally deeply invested in us each and every one of us and i know that she for a fact has met with every single per that's matching today she's invested not only in helping us achieve our dreams but also in keeping us from losing ourselves along the  she poured her heart and her soul into helping us get here today and we wouldn't have residency spots without her so thank you the second person goes hand in hand with this but i know that each of us would love to thank emma she put  start have a quick story this is been pre approved by my dad and my mom and dad are watching california love you guys so as some of you know my dad's a surgeon and when he matched his second to last choice i know that sounds like you're a literal worst nightmare right now but stay with me two things happened because of where my dad matched the first was that he met my mom so i am grateful for the times and the second is that he became a surgeon he became the exact same thing that he would have become had he matched at his first choice or his last and he would be the first person to tell you that every single day perhaps to a fault and i'm just kidding he absolutely loves what he does so today when you open an envelope if you're not your first choice or your last or somewhere in between you know that we all have the matchless privilege of being it's going to go so bad liz and kate's yeah our wonderful classmates who started on this journey with us are going to call names like three to four time so when your name is called walk to the left side of the stage and pick up your advice from them if you want to share your news at the podium just wait in line you guys know this but i'll just read this and then announce very much when you get on stage put your dollar the jar for the dollars is going to be right here  times and then if you want to read your envelope offstage that's fine you're welcome to like come back on stage later and get in line or just whatever you want to do but once make announcement make sure to shake the hands of our leaders and then also give dr five so i'm just kind of curious though i don't know where the envelopes are compelled to tell him my embarrassing secrets that's a powerful spell psychiatry of everything then medicine advocate health care chicago hand i'm going to university in north carolina ok i'm emily yes this is my husband john my daughter's the celia and matching end of family medicine i just wanted to say hi to my parents who are here and also carry hellion rosie her watching all right so i'm matching into family medicine and we're going to the university of vermont dick i just want to say congratulations to everyone we did it fall very proud to share this moment with you guys which shots my mom and dad i love you guys so much i applied general surgery my name is david leon as you may know i did not play into only one specialty and so on would be going next year i opened it up before offstage so i cheated but  i'm going to john hopkins university and combine emergency medicine  go into curling clinic in virginia mean my grandmother streaming hi everyone i'm guy three i am going into pediatrics the same as my brother and sister who five pound away to be matching but they're younger than me my parents are out there thank you so much and thanks to everyone who's watching and i'm going into general surgery at the university of vermont hi my name is cheryl into stefano i am couples matching into family medicine with my boyfriend erin who is on face time here but he's in tel aviv israel right now and i will be opening both of our letters so we'll both be finding out at the same time we're going to be they say thank you to my family who is watching and my sister and also his family who's watching live stream right now thank you all so we will be going to the university of utah and i'll be going to maine medical center thinking we do at the university of vermont and i'm going to all my family i'm a live stream and i'm going to the university of vermont medical  so i know everyone's dying to know where i'm matched but more importantly i know you're dying to know who i'm wearing was this my amazing husband in many of you know hi to all my friends and family back out west going to sin mary's medical center in grand junction colorado hi everyone i'm kathleen olson with my husband john i just want to say things to my parents who are watching from arizona good luck to my dad who's having colonoscopy today hope you studied and thank you so much to my great husband john for all the foot rubs after the long days so i'm going into you're all a g and we're going back home to mayo clinic in arizona seen i'm going into medicine i just want to say thank you so much to my family and friends especially my parents lee and john my husband david my husband's folks and his sister my so much ok and i'm going to ology and i'm taylor wealthy am going into internal medicine and we just want to think all of our family and our friends and everyone watching thank you very much  are going to that my friends here became my family and i love you i also want to say hi to my family was watching them live stream back home thank you so much and also congratulations to my twin sister who march in the family medicine today parker i'm going to family medicine and we're going to albany medical center out i'm britney i'm going into general surgery this is my boyfriend adam thanks guys going to general surgery want to thank everyone i think my parents who are here my sister who is like thirty seven weeks pregnant  who couldn't be here today and all my friends and family my clinical partner julia and i'm really excited to find out where i'm going to surgery i'm going to so i already knew where i was going but this letter luckily does confirm it just wanted to open it to be sure so we headed to albany you to my family and friends for over the years for your support and my family's your shadow to you my sister watching and i applied it to dermatology and i matched that you university of vermont medical center i know you guys have already seen me you were here to read for our friend alex miller we're trying to connect with her on face time now she couldn't be here because she's an overachiever and she's accepting some big award for global health work in new york all right alex you to be on the west chester westchester medical center i'm steven mauer and i'm going into internal medicine i'm lesser after and we would really love to thank all of our friends and family especially my mom and stepdad who are right there for all of your support and help we couldn't have done it without you i thank my mom and dad for all the work that they put in to me i could have could not have done this without you guys and i must end kaiser permanent right hello everybody my name is eric schmidt's i'm going into internal medicine i just want to thank every single person in this room for being here and being in meaningful to at least one person here i love every single person watching and everyone in the live studio audience i'm going to miss you guys  moves seven states three countries two continents and i'm going to family medicine at penn state hi guys i'm back at my parents clinic green the hospital yeah i just wanted a son to say hi to my parents who are watching in florida this is my fiance us and we're going to v c u virginia commonwealth university in richmond we're going back  thanks i'm sammy ramadan this is my partner alexandra hopefully my grandmother has power in lebanon soon watch this i machin surgery in the military and we're going to u c davis society thank you so much for helping us through hi everyone i'm lauren haggerty i'm going into internal medicine i'd like to thank all of my friends and my family who decided to live streams that strangers don't know where i'm moving before they do and i'm going to the university of san diego we're going to utah going into pediatrics i'm really say mada i'm going into orthopedic surgery i'm going to family medicine a bit of a surprise i'm going to the university of rochester new york