Medical school students across the country have learned where their first phase of medical practice,or residencies,will occur.At 9 a.m. on March 17,the anxious seniors received their letters of acceptance with tears and cheers.The National Residency Matching Program matches these applicants with positions.This year,there were 16,554 applicants for more than 26,000 positions.
Among the applicants were students from USC's Keck School of Medicine.Several of them expressed satisfaction with their matches and the hands-on training they had received at Keck.As one student put it,she was a doctor from day one at Keck.Of the 163 Keck students who participated in the NRMP,116 will spend at least part of their residencies in California.Fifty of those will serve the underpriveleged at LAC+USC Medical Center,a public hospital that is the largest provider of health care in Los Angeles County.
The most popular residency among Keck students was internal medicine(29),which is encouraging,given the national shortage of primary care physicians.Other favored specialties were emergency medicine,psychiatry and pediatrics.
Residency occurs after internship and the granting of the MD degree.It is then that persons are called doctors,practicing in clinical settings under the supervision of experienced physicians in their chosen field.In the UK,residents are known as registrars.
It is a day of joyous emotion for the seniors as they see their careers unfold after many and costly years of preparation.
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