Friday, March 15 is Match Day and dozens of area medical students joined thousands around the nation to find out their next step in their medical careers. Resident applicants at the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership gathered at today in George Hall on the UGA Health Sciences Campus for Match Day.
Sealed envelopes addressed to each member of the class of 2019 and delivered by faculty were opened at noon, and inside each envelope was a personal letter revealing where the student will pursue postgraduate medical education. This year’s Match Day was celebrated with a red-carpet theme and many were dressed in their formal attire.
An annual event, Match Day takes place after students participate in interviews and visits to residency programs in Georgia and across the country. To determine the post-graduation assignments, the students ranked residency programs where they would like to complete their training, and the residency programs ranked the student applicants. The lists are then submitted to the nonprofit organization National Resident Matching Program in Washington, D.C., which uses an algorithm that aligns the choices of the applicants with those of the residency programs.
The final pairings are announced simultaneously across the U.S. at noon on the third Friday in March.
AU/UGA students are heading to 17 states and institutions including Johns Hopkins Harvard, and the Mayo Clinic.
Complete List:
Yordanos Agajyelleh, John Peter Smith Hospital, family medicine
Shub Agrawal, Emory University School of Medicine, internal medicine
Shawkut Ali, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, family medicine
Courtney Alvis, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, pediatrics
Andrew Anderson, WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center, and Emory University School of Medicine, anesthesiology
Travis Anderson, University of South Alabama Hospitals, orthopedic surgery
Amarachi Anukam, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, internal medicine
Hannah Barney, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, internal medicine
Joseph Beckworth, Medical University of South Carolina, psychiatry
Jane Chang, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System internal Medicine; Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, neurology
Hannah Childs, Medical College of Georgia, obstetrics and gynecology
Nicholas Clemm, University of Tennessee Center of Medicine-Memphis, internal medicine/pediatrics
Max Green, Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, internal medicine
Blakeley Hudson, University of Alabama- Birmingham, emergency medicine
Cinthana Kandasamy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard, internal medicine
John Knopf, Gwinnett Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, radiology-diagnostic
Keely Larsen, University of Florida Center of Medicine-Shands Hospital, pediatrics
Adolphia Lauture, Mount Sinai Medical Center-Miami, obstetrics and gynecology
Ricardo Lopez-Hanson, East Tennessee State University, surgery-preliminary
Audrey Martinez, Mountain AHEC-Asheville, psychiatry
Elizabeth Matlock, UC San Diego Medical Center, psychiatry/family medicine
Osinakachukwu Mbata, Oregon Health & Science University, obstetrics and gynecology
Anudeep Neelam, Emory University School of Medicine, internal medicine
Taylor Oakley, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine-Knoxville, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine-Knoxville, radiology-diagnostic
Billie Odom, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, neurology
Sean Olinger, Baylor-Scott & White, general surgery
Gabriel Pajares-Hurtado, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard, internal medicine
John Perez, West Virginia University School of Medicine, psychiatry
Crystal Perkins, Redmond Regional Medical Center, University of Florida Center of Medicine-Shands Hospital, radiology-diagnostic
Jonathan Pham, John Peter Smith Hospital, emergency medicine
Jessica Principe, Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard, psychiatry
Connor Ratchford, University of Colorado School of Medicine—Denver, surgery-preliminary
William Saunders, University of Michigan Hospitals—Ann Arbor, family medicine
Nicholas Schoenmann, Medical College of Georgia, emergency medicine
Daniel Steinberg, University of Tennessee—Saint Thomas Hospitals, emergency medicine
Lauren Thomas, University of Florida Center of Medicine—Shands Hospital, obstetrics and gynecology
Mateo Villa, Kendall Regional Medical Center, general surgery
Mason Webb, Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, internal medicine/research
Marquise Westbrook, Keesler Air Force Base, internal medicine
Leah Williams, University of Colorado School of Medicine –Denver, pediatrics
Ashley Wright, Palmetto Health Richland, family medicine
Jordan Ward, Duke University School of Medicine, dermatology