WHAT:
The Wayne State University School of Medicine’s Class of 2013 medical students will learn whether they matched with one of their top three medical residency picks at the annual Match Day ceremony. The local event follows the protocol of the National Resident Matching Program, a private non-profit corporation established in 1952 to provide a uniform date of appointment to positions of graduate medical education in the United States.

Sealed envelopes containing all U.S. medical students’ graduate medical education assignments, including specialty and location of residency, are delivered and opened throughout the country simultaneously.

WSU’s students have a historically high match success rate, and many stay here in Michigan. In 2012, 96 percent of WSU students matched with one of their top picks, and 59.5 percent of those residences were in Michigan – good news for a state with a projected physician shortage.

WHEN:
Friday, March 15, 2013
11 a.m. – doors open
Noon – envelopes opened

WHERE:
The Motor City Grand Ballroom (inside Motor City Casino Hotel)
2901 Grand River
Detroit, MI 48021

VISUALS:
Nearly 900 students, faculty, staff and family counting down the seconds before learning where their sons, daughters, wives, husbands, moms, dads and siblings will live and work for at least the next three years; celebrating, cheers and tears of joy.

Founded in 1868, the Wayne State University School of Medicine is the largest single-campus medical school in the nation with more than 1,000 medical students. In addition to undergraduate medical education, the school offers master’s degree, Ph.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. programs in 14 areas of basic science to about 400 students annually.