{"id":137567,"date":"2021-03-22T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=137567"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:54:48","slug":"match-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/22\/match-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"68 future physicians ‘match’ into residency programs"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Some of the members of JABSOM<\/abbr>‘s class of 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Match Day begins the culmination of a student\u2019s medical school journey. On March 19, future physicians across the nation, including 68 members of the 2021 graduating class at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM<\/abbr>) found out where they will spend the next three to five years training as MD<\/abbr> residents. Match Day 2021 was the first hybrid in-person and virtual special event at JABSOM<\/abbr> in a year since the first stay-at-home COVID-19 orders.<\/p>\n

Primary care continues to be a main point of interest for JABSOM<\/abbr> students. More than half of the students chose primary care as their specialty, including those with significant shortages (internal medicine, family medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology). More than three-fourths of the class will either stay home or train close to home on the West Coast.<\/p>\n

First hybrid Match Day<\/h2>\n
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A student calls her family to share where she matched.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the event to go fully online. This year, JABSOM<\/abbr> held a hybrid ceremony where students could choose to attend a safe, socially-distanced and masked Match Day ceremony on-campus in the JABSOM<\/abbr> auditorium or stay at home with their families and participate virtually on Zoom and YouTube. The in-person event was limited to students and a few faculty and staff. All in attendance were fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

“For med students, today is the most important day of our careers, and we\u2019re really grateful to be able to do that safely and all together,” said Nicole Anzai<\/strong>, MD<\/abbr> 2021 candidate and class president.<\/p>\n

How do students “match?”<\/h2>\n

Medical students spend their final year of medical school applying to and interviewing with different residency programs to become a specialist in one of these disciplines. The applicants and program directors rank each other in order of preference and submit these lists to the National Resident Matching Program<\/a> (NRMP<\/abbr>), which uses a computer algorithm to match applicants and programs. At 6 a.m. Hawaiʻi<\/span> Standard Time (noon Eastern Standard Time), fourth-year medical students across the country opened their envelopes (or an email) to find out to which program they\u2019ve been matched. According to NRMP<\/abbr>, this year was the largest in its history of 42,508 applicants.<\/p>\n

For more go to the JABSOM<\/abbr> website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This event is an example of ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the 2015–25 Strategic Plan<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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