"match day" - the most infamous day in a medical student's
life - was in march, and in june i'll be moving to philadelphia, pennsylvania
for the next three years! for those who don’t know, the match is a computer algorithm
that correlates the rank lists of applicants and residency programs. the
process starts with applications, and then (hopefully) interview invitations to
specific residency programs in the fall, which one then ranks in order of
preference. on match day, every residency applicant finds out at the same time
via email where they matched for residency. the mathematicians who developed
the algorithm won a nobel prize for their efforts! it usually works out for
the aggregate best, but there are never any guarantees that one will end up at
somewhere near the top of their list or of matching at all for that matter.
i am absolutely thrilled that i will be doing my
residency in pediatrics at my first choice, st. christopher's hospital for children,
which is the pediatric teaching hospital for drexel and temple universities.
the hospital is in north philadelphia, in the heart of the "poorest
zipcode in america." the patient population is predominantly african american
and very underserved, which is tremendously attractive to me, as on the whole i
will much prefer the inner-city to dealing with upper-middle class suburban
anti-vaxxers. also thrilled to get to move to the great city of philadelphia! it
is a better residency program than i deserve objectively speaking and i am so
very thankful to God for this opportunity! all are most welcome to come visit!
