PURCH Class of 2021 Successfully Matches to Residency Programs
The Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health (PURCH) track reached a milestone today as it celebrated Residency Match day with its inaugural class of students.
All PURCH students graduating in 2021 successfully matched to a categorical residency program.
Three graduating PURCH students will be returning to Baystate Health in July for their residency programs. A total of six will remain in Massachusetts for residency training.
And eleven of the fifteen are entering primary care which is experiencing a nationwide shortage of physicians.
Where the New Physicians Will Begin Residency Training
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Andrew Boylan
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Internal Medicine
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George Washington University, Washington, DC
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Colton Conrad
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Emergency Medicine
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UMMS-Baystate, Springfield, MA
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Juliana Dixon
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Family Medicine
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
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Kirstin Lee
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Family Medicine |
Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA
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Wendy Ma
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Internal Medicine
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University of Miami/Jackson Health System, Miami, FL
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Poornima Manikantan
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Internal Medicine |
Stony Brook Teaching Hospital, Stony Brook, NY
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Elisabeth McGovern
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Pediatrics
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Childrens Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
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Caleb Noone
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Emergency Medicine
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UMMS-Baystate, Springfield, MA
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Kathryn Norman
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Internal Medicine
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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Afua Nti
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Internal Medicine
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University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
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Laura Schwartz
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Medicine-Pediatrics
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Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
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Alay Shah
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General Surgery
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St Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY
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Daniel Wenzel
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Transitional year
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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Kevin White
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Internal Medicine
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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
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Amanda Whitehouse
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Medicine-Pediatrics
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UMMS-Baystate, Springfield, MA
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The very first student admitted into the PURCH track, Kevin White, was also the first to learn his residency destination through the military match in January.
About The Match Process
Match Day, held annually on the third Friday of March, is when graduating medical students learn where they will do their residency training.
During their final year of medical school, students apply to, and interview with, residency programs of their choice. Then applicants and program directors rank each other in order of preference. The National Resident Matching Program uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to match applicants with programs. Applicants receive an envelope with their match results—this year an email as well—which the NRMP mandates cannot be opened before noon. Research using the NRMP algorithm was a basis for awarding The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2012.