Match Day: UT medical students to open envelopes revealing futures March 18

March 15, 2016 | Events, News, UToday, Medicine and Life Sciences
By Christine Billau



The highly anticipated, dramatic moment when thousands of graduating medical students across the country tear open envelopes that contain their future will be Friday, March 18, at noon.

Fourth-year medical students at The University of Toledo will be at Stranahan Theater’s Great Hall to experience the annual Match Day ritual to learn where they will spend the next three to seven years training in their chosen specialty, from anesthesiology to general surgery to pediatrics.

Business Hlogo 1c BlackThe 2016 Residency Match The envelope-opening ceremony will begin precisely at noon. The event is by invitation-only.

A computer algorithm administered by the National Resident Matching Program “matches” students and residency programs together.

Students spend months interviewing at hospitals and universities across the nation to find the ideal institutions that will best help them perfect their chosen specialties. The students then rank their top choices, and academic and community-based medical centers nationwide rank their top student choices.

Residents are licensed physicians who care for patients under the supervision of attending physicians and represent the medical work force of tomorrow.