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News Release

March 16, 2005

Contact: Jane Shaskan, 860-679-4777
e-mail: shaskan@nso.uchc.edu

The Envelope, Please

Medical Students Matched to Residency Programs

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Match Day is the rite of passage for the nation’s graduating medical students, including 67 from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. They will be tearing open envelopes that hold the key to their futures at exactly 12:05 p.m., Thursday, March 17, in the Robert Massey Auditorium adjacent to the Academic Entrance at UConn Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue.

Each year the National Residency Match Program matches thousands of medical school graduates to residency programs. The medical students learn where they will serve their residences, setting them on a path that usually determines their lifelong career and home.

Note to print and television reporters and photo/video editors:
Each year Match Day proves to be a tension-filled and exhilarating event for graduating students, their families, and the faculty. Interview, photo and video opportunities are profuse.

UConn Health includes the schools of medicine and dental medicine, the UConn Medical Group, University Dentists, and John Dempsey Hospital. Home to Bioscience Connecticut, UConn Health pursues a mission of providing outstanding health care education in an environment of exemplary patient care, research and public service. More information about UConn Health is available at www.uchc.edu.

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