residency

Fourth-year medical students learned Friday, March 21, where they will go for residency training, the next stage of their careers. The annual event also brought a marriage proposal for one student, to the delight of students gathered for Match Day. Shown is student Jacqueline Chen upon learning she will go to Barnes-Jewish Hospital to focus on internal medicine for her residency.

Fourth-year students at Washington University School of Medicine, including Kevin Choong and Julietta Chang, learned March 16 where they will continue their medical training. This year, 121 students matched to internships or residencies nationwide and in Canada.

New research shows that the likelihood of a medical school graduate becoming board certified is linked to age at graduation, race and ethnicity, and level of debt. The study, by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Washington University’s graduating medical students will do their residency training at hospitals from coast to coast and even in Canada.

Samuel Hundert (left) and Feng Su were among 117 School of Medicine students who learned where they will do their residencies March 17 at Match Day. Of those, 24 matched at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine, and six matched at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Students who enter medical school with high-debt levels, low scores on the Medical College Admissions Test or who are non-white are more likely to face difficulties that may prevent graduation or hinder acceptance into a residency program if they do graduate, according to a nationwide study of students enrolled in MD programs.