Match Day: new doctors can be eloquent

 Last Friday was Match Day, when medical students learn where they matched to a residency position.

Here's the story from Stanford:

Students open envelopes and learn their futures on Match Day
In concert with graduating medical students around the nation, members of Stanford School of Medicine’s Class of 2025 discovered where they’re spending the next leg of their training journey. 

"on the third Friday in March, all at the same time (noon on the East Coast), the medical students learn their fates.

This year, 81 Stanford Medicine graduates matched to residency programs in specialties ranging from psychiatry to ophthalmology to pediatrics. About 40% are staying at Stanford Health Care – a typical proportion.

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"Basil Baccouche (who matched to internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s), chosen by his classmates to speak at the event, highlighted emotional moments during medical school.

“Medical school was the first time many of us saw the beginnings of life and the coming of death. The astonishing responsibility of caring for another person,” he said.

“I’ll never forget the first time I delivered a baby. Suddenly, there was one more of us in the room, and I began to cry.”