Final-year medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) recently celebrated a successful Match Day as they secured residency places to continue their training at elite institutions in Qatar and the US.

Qatari medical student Zainab Al-Ansari and her parents celebrate her match with the psychiatry residency training programme at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York City. 

The medical students who are due to graduate in May gathered at WCM-Q for Match Day, for the announcement on where members of the class are matched with leading residency training programmes at prestigious institutions. The graduating students will be taking residency at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Case Western/University Hospital in Cleveland, the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Massachusetts General Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Columbia University.

The medical specialities the new doctors will be pursuing once they receive their MD degrees are neurology, child neurology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, general surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics-gynaecology, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and diagnostic radiology. They will join their residency programmes in the fall.

Match Day

Match Day is pivotal in any doctor’s career, with thousands of students in the US and all over the world vying for places in these residency programmes. The process is administered by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) in Washington, DC and is highly competitive. This year was the biggest match in the NRMP’s 70-year history, with a record number of 42,952 active applicants and 40,375 certified positions available.

WCM-Q Dean Dr Javaid Sheikh extended his warmest congratulations to what he called, an exceptionally talented group of young people, for achieving truly impressive matches at some of the world’s leading medical institutions. He thanked each of the students for their dedication, and Qatar Foundation and the State of Qatar for their continuing support of WCM-Q.

Final-year WCM-Q medical students celebrated a successful Match Day as they secured places on residency training programmes at elite medical institutions in Qatar and the US.

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