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Match Day 2016 brings excitement, tears of joy for Keck School students, families<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n Amanda Busick<\/span>\n \n March 24, 2016<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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Nicole Coppage, center, places a pin over Seattle, Washington, after learning that she will be spending her residency at her first-choice match at the University of Washington in family medicine on March 18, 2016.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n \n \n \n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\r\n\r\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Loud cheering echoed through the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad at 9:01 a.m. March 18 as 163 Keck School of Medicine of USC seniors simultaneously ripped open envelopes that told them where they are spending the next few years of their lives.<\/h3>\n

The students and their families were celebrating Match Day 2016, when graduating medical students learn where they will be going to complete their residencies. It is a day full of excitement, emotion and even introspection.
\nClass co-president Kelly Jones, who just a few minutes later found out she had matched with her first choice of Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, stated in her opening remarks that, \u201ctoday is so much about looking forward, but we also hope it allows us to appreciate how far we\u2019ve come as we\u2019ve grown into our roles as physicians.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m so excited, I can\u2019t even tell you,\u201d said Kelly\u2019s mother, Theresa Jones. \u201cWe live in Orange County and she\u2019ll be staying close by, so she can drop by and see us whenever she has a free moment.\u201d
\nThe Joneses were all smiles, including her father and cousin, who also joined for the happy day.
\nThis year was the largest Match Day yet, with 18,668 seniors getting matched with residency programs at hospitals nationwide through the National Resident Matching Program. At the Keck School, 163 students were matched. Of those, 123 will complete all or part of their training in California, and 46 will be at LAC+USC for at least part of their residency. For the first time, Texas was the second most-popular state with nine matches, beating out the usual second-place state of New York.
\nDean Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA, walked around Pappas Quad after the students opened their envelopes, taking in the excitement of the morning.
\n\u201cI think the Keck School is an outstanding medical school with a great reputation,\u201d he said, \u201cand it\u2019s reflected in where our students matched, at many of the leading medical centers around the United States.\u201d
\nJoseph De Sena was surrounded by friends and mentors, celebrating his match at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles for family medicine. He said the morning was overwhelming.
\n\u201cWhen I was in line and walking closer to my envelope, I felt the nerves building,\u201d De Sena said. \u201cAs soon as I opened it, I instantly broke into tears and I was so happy.\u201d
\nDe Sena praised the faculty and administration at the Keck School for supporting him throughout his student career.
\n\u201cSince Day 1, (Assistant Dean for Student Diversity Althea Alexander) has been a second mother to me, any questions I had or anything I needed, she was there for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI also did a pediatric surgery rotation at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles and worked with (Vice Dean for Medical Education Henri Ford, MD, MHA), who is an amazing mentor.\u201d
\nNicole Coppage isn\u2019t resting on her laurels after finding out about her first-choice match at the University of Washington. \u201cMy next step is to pack up and move to Atlanta for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 6 weeks,\u201d Coppage said, barely able to contain her excitement. \u201cI will be working on a research project dealing with low income population\u2019s access to healthy food and its impact on obesity. Then I come back to California, graduate, and move to Seattle.\u201d
\nDeep Chandegara is relocating too, but much closer to home. His match, in anesthesiology at LAC+USC, makes him very happy. \u201cI could not imagine myself at a better place. Now, I have to find an apartment in downtown Los Angeles!\u201d he said with a big grin. \u201cBut first, I\u2019m going to celebrate. I am one of the class social chairs and we are going to have a celebration tonight.\u201d
\nFor more photos, view our Match Day 2016 photo gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38,57,110],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-administrative","tag-recent","tag-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMatch Day 2016 brings excitement, tears of joy for Keck School students, families<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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