Locally and Nationally, Budding Doctors Get Their Internship Assignments on 'Match Day'
By Kristen Johanson
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's the day every doctor-in-training awaits... Match Day!
Today at noon, students from medical schools across the country were allowed to open envelopes containing the name of which hospital each of them will join for their residency.
At Temple University, there were cries of joy mingled with a few tears of disappointment as more than 200 students learned where they will continue their medical education.
Noonshin Asadpour found out she will continue her path in pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, here in Philadelphia.
"I am so excited... I can't put it into words!" she said after getting her personal news generated by the algorithm-driven matching procedure.
Dr. Larry Kaiser, dean of Temple's medical school, says this day sets the soon-to-be doctors up for their entire career.
"Four years of medical school, and four years of undergraduate, and tremendous time committment and dedication, and it really all comes down to this," he told KYW Newsradio. "This is the start of the rest of their life."
Asadpour says it's that and so much more:
"It's just a bounty to begin this journey... finally."
Her mother, who was accompanying her daughter today, said she is "very proud of her."