Hugs, high-fives, cheers and kisses should fill the room Thursday when Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine seniors find out which residency programs they will enter after graduation this spring. Hopkins students are among more than 14,000 U. S. medical students nervously celebrating Match Day. The 110 Hopkins students have chosen a variety of disciplines in cities all around the country.
Residency is the time when they develop both professionally and personally.
Prior to Match Day, students interviewed with hospitals and then provided a rank order list of top choices. Hospitals submit a similar list indicating openings, preferred students, and specialty or generalist preferences. Each applicant is matched via computer to the hospital residency program highest on the applicant s list that has offered the applicant a position. Match Day events begin at noon in the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, room 2140.