Just as basketball fans wait every year for the tradition, excitement and upsets of March Madness, medical students await the same with Match Day.
Fourth-year medical students from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine will participate in Match Day starting at 10:30 a.m. March 17 at the Odessa Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 305 E. Fifth St.
The results are sealed in an envelope and opened simultaneously at all of the nation’s medical schools, as students learn where they will spend the next three to seven years of their residency training. Envelopes are opened at 11 a.m. simultaneously with medical students across the country
Students applied to residency programs in their preferred specialties and then visited sites virtually to evaluate and ultimately rank their preferred residency programs.
The National Resident Matching Program coordinates this process, which is designed to produce results for students to fill the thousands of training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals.
