Fourth-year medical students at Wayne State University and throughout the United States are waiting anxiously for Thursday, March 17, 2011. It's known as Match Day, an annual event when students around the country simultaneously learn where they will train during their medical residencies. It's a day that determines where they will spend the next three to seven years of their lives, therefore significantly impacting their careers and relationships.

Approximately 315 Wayne State School of Medicine students will gather with family and friends beginning at 11 a.m. at the Roostertail, 100 Marquette Dr., Detroit. Match results will be revealed promptly at noon during an envelope-opening ceremony.

Most medical students spent months interviewing at hospitals across the country, searching for the ideal place to practice their chosen specialties. Students ranked their top choices, and hospitals ranked their top student choices. Then a computer program administered by the National Resident Matching Program matched the students and hospitals together.

For many students, finding out where they match is the most important event since learning where they would be attending medical school.

Because of the students' anticipation and the excitement of learning where they will train, Match Day creates many good video and photo opportunities.