Media Advisory

WHAT:

The Wayne State University School of Medicine's Class of 2014 medical students will learn where they will begin their residency training during 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 remain in Michigan for their residency. In 2013, 98.5 percent of WSU students matched with residencies, and nearly 53 percent of those residences were in Michigan - good news for a state with a projected physician shortage.

WHEN:

Friday, March 21, 2014

10 a.m. - doors open, 11 a.m. - program begins

Noon - envelopes opened

WHERE:

The MGM Grand Detroit

Grand Ballroom

1777 Third St.

Detroit, MI 48226

VISUALS:

Nearly 750 students, faculty, staff and family counting down the seconds before learning where their sons, daughters, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers and siblings will live and work for at least the next three years; celebrating, cheers and tears of joy.

About Wayne State University School of Medicine

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.