New York Medical College School of Medicine graduates are poised to go on to train at 77 institutions at 18 states, plus Washington, D.C.
The graduates learned of their fates on the Ides of March – historically not a good day as it marks the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 B.C. But those who gathered outside the Medical Education Center at high noon and ripped open their fateful envelopes as part of the National Resident Matching Program’s (NRMP) Match Day seemed anything but unlucky.
“Matching at Harvard for orthopedic surgery is a dream come true,” said Thomas Gagliardi, an Armonk resident who matched at Massachusetts General Hospital, the original teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. “New York Medical College (NYMC) did so much for me, and I could not be more grateful for all the people who helped me get to this point. My family, friends, colleagues, every teacher I’ve ever had in my life, everyone has played a role in this day. I could not be more excited to become the best orthopedic surgeon and physician I can possibly become starting in a few months.”
“I am beyond excited to be heading to the University of California, San Francisco, for internal medicine residency next year,” said Katherine Lo, president of the SOM Student Senate. “This has been my dream ever since high school, and I’m so thrilled to be going home to San Francisco. My NYMC experience has been beyond anything I could have ever imagined. From the amazing faculty I have had the privilege of learning from to the classmates and peers who have become some of my very best friends, I’m immensely grateful for all my role models and mentors who have supported and guided me along the way. It has been such an amazing journey, and I could not be more excited for the next step in my medical career.”
Among the area institutions where the Class of 2024 will train are NYMC major clinical affiliates Westchester Medical Center and NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, as well as local clinical affiliates NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, Lenox Hill Hospital, Northern Westchester Hospital, part of the Northwell Health System, in Mount Kisco and Greenwich Hospital. Others will train at research-intensive, academic medical centers across the country, including Beth Israel-Deaconess, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, also affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, John Hopkins, New York University, Mount Sinai, Weil Cornell and Yale.
The top career choices for the Class of 2024 were internal medicine, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, general surgery, psychiatry, radiology, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and neurology.
“NYMC was the only medical school that offered me an interview, and four years later I’m graduating as the president of the NYMC chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and have interviewed for residency at some of the most prestigious hospitals in the world,” said Joseph Conti, who matched in thoracic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. “The leadership at this institution has helped me immensely in my journey to becoming a physician, and they will always hold a special place in my heart.”
During the event, several members of the SOM administration offered their congratulations. “Now it’s real: You’re all going to be doctors, and you’re all going to train at terrific places,” said Neil Schluger, M.D., SOM dean. “Congratulations to all of you. We’ll watch you with pride and excitement for what you will accomplish in your careers.”
“You are the first graduating class at NYMC to navigate preclinical and clinical years, sit for step exams and undergo residency interviews amidst the ‘new normal,’” said Mill Etienne, M.D. Class of 2002, M.P.H., vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion and associate dean for student affairs. “This positions you to understand firsthand that normalcy is relative and ever-evolving, equipping you to fearlessly navigate, promote and embrace paradigm shifts and to not mindlessly accept the idea of ‘this is how it’s always been.’”
Match Day “marks the crowning achievement of all you have accomplished and all you have worked for,” said Susan Rachlin, M.D., senior associate dean for student affairs. “Any program will make you the specialist of your choice, so please relish and treasure this moment.”
Each year, the results of the National Resident Matching Program are disclosed simultaneously at medical schools around the country. This year’s match included the largest number of applicants in NRMP’s history, with a record number of 50,413 applicants total, 44,853 applicants who certified a rank order list (“active applicants”) and 41,503 certified positions in 6,395 residency training programs.
For more, visit https://www.nymc.edu.
