Match Day

Members of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences MD Class of 2023 celebrated Match Day on March 17, learning where they would train in their medical specialties.

Fourth-year medical students at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) gathered in Lisner Auditorium with family, friends and faculty to celebrate one of the most significant milestones in a budding physician’s life, Match Day.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences MD Class of 2021 matched in some of the most significant residency programs across 32 states on Match Day, March 19. Their residency destinations included Johns Hopkins Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s National Hospital (Children’s…

COVID-19 didn't deter students from the excitement of the day. When the clock hit noon they gathered with family and friends around computer monitors and across D.C. and the country for a virtual reveal of their residency match.  

When the clock struck noon on March 15, fourth-year SMHS MD students opened letters that revealed where they would be spending their residency years.

Excited. Nervous. Hopeful. A little overwhelmed. That’s how Diana Lee described her emotions on March 16 as the clock slowly ticked toward noon, when medical students across the country discovered where their residency training would begin.

The noise of the crowd grew to a deafening roar in Ross Hall Room 101 of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) at the Announcements that 100 percent of the Class of 2017 will begin residency training this summer.

Medical students at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences spoke to ABC7 - WJLA about their Match Day experiences.

Thanks to the Cecile and Seymour Alpert, MD, Medical School Scholarship, Dalya was able to heed that calling and make her dream of becoming a physician a reality. Embarking on the journey to become a physician was a long and difficult path,” she says, “but knowing that my hard work and…

Fourth-year medical students celebrate their “match” to the institution where they will complete their residency training.