Medical students get 'Match Day' assignments
Photo credit: Daniel Brennan | Obinna Ndum, 28, a graduating student of Stony Brook University's Medical School, celebrates with friends on match day after learning that he has been accepted into a residency in the Emergency Medicine program at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. (March 15, 2013)
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In what is described as the largest "Match Day" in the history of U.S. medical education, graduating seniors learned Friday where they will spend the next three years, but experts warned the record number of new doctors won't end the physician shortage.
This year, 29,171 first-year residency positions were offered through a massive lottery-styled system in which students rank their preferred...
