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USC\u2019s MD Class of 2026 gets a first look at their postgrad futures on Match Day<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Graduating medical students from the Keck School of Medicine of USC tallied a 96% match rate with residencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n Wayne Lewis<\/span>\n \n March 20, 2026<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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It was a milestone moment for the future physicians trained at the Keck School of Medicine of USC<\/a>. Gathered at the USC Health Sciences Campus on the balmy morning of March 20, the university\u2019s largest-ever class of medical students learned where the next phase of their training will take them.<\/p>\n

Earlier, 201 USC medical students had applied to postgraduate programs and ranked them in order of preference via the National Resident Matching Program<\/a>. Now, on Match Day, the results of this admission process manifested at USC and medical schools across North America. At exactly 9\u00a0a.m. PDT, the Keck School of Medicine\u2019s MD Class of 2026 ripped into envelopes containing big news amid the celebratory buzz of support from family, friends, faculty and staff. This year, the graduating students achieved an overall match rate of 96%.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m heading to Portland!\u201d said Angela Tang-Tan, who will be a neurosurgery resident at Oregon Health and Science University. \u201cI\u2019m so relieved, honestly. I resonated with the residents when I interviewed there. I had the greatest interactions, and I think it\u2019ll be a really good fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe level of investment and guidance they\u2019ve given me is above and beyond. My mentors have always had my back. That\u2019s been critical to my success.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Angela Tang-Tan<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\"Angela
Angela Tang-Tan matched into neurosurgery at Oregon Health and Science University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Tang-Tan traces her calling to be a physician back to her first job in health care. During her undergraduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, she tackled long weekend shifts as an ambulance EMT. An already taxing job turned even more so with the COVID-19 epidemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was really tough,\u201d said Tang-Tan, who grew up in the Bay Area. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t have a life if you were in health care at the time. You had to be isolated from everybody. I still found myself doing it, even when it was difficult, and that was a beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finding her passion for neurosurgery at the Keck School of Medicine, she spent a year as a Dean\u2019s Research Scholar<\/a> conducting basic studies in the laboratory of William Mack, MD, MBA<\/a>, chair and professor of neurological surgery and clinical scholar. Tang-Tan feels well-prepared for her residency thanks to his mentorship, as well as that of Gabriel Zada, MD<\/a>, professor of neurological surgery and of physiology and neuroscience, clinical scholar and vice chair for education in neurological surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe level of investment and guidance they\u2019ve given me is above and beyond,\u201d Tang-Tan said. \u201cMy mentors have always had my back. That\u2019s been critical to my success.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a welcome surprise, Tang-Tan also reawakened her passion for creative writing at the medical school, starting with an elective seminar in narrative medicine<\/a>. Alongside her peer-reviewed scientific publications, she\u2019s also had her poems and nonfiction published. A piece by Tang-Tan will appear in Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine, a forthcoming anthology from Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy the unique stories that neurosurgery and medicine can bring up,\u201d she said. \u201cSo many stories are so heartbreaking, but there\u2019s a lot of beauty, resilience and grace. I\u2019ve had the desire to put words to that experience of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to specializing in neurosurgery, Tang-Tan is excited for the future of the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are going to be leaps and bounds and revolutions in our understanding of the way we interact with the brain and the nervous system within our lifetime, within my generation, within my career,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s something I\u2019m excited to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n
These sentiments echo the words of Carolyn Meltzer, MD<\/a>, dean of the Keck School of Medicine, addressing students during a brief program that preceded the opening of envelopes.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmbrace change and explore how you can push us forward to a new horizon of medicine,\u201d said Meltzer, May S. and John H. Hooval, M.D., Dean\u2019s Chair and professor of radiology. \u201cYou have the tools to excel in whatever specialty that you have chosen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTraining at USC has been absolutely incredible. We learn by doing, and they push you to take responsibility for your own patients, with appropriate supervision. That is a powerful experience that motivates you to learn so that you can better care for them \u2014 and not just them, but for your future patients as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
- Patrick Jennings<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Patrick Jennings matched into surgery at Rush University in Chicago, Illinois.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Medical student Patrick Jennings, an undergraduate alumnus of Notre Dame University, is looking forward to being a surgical resident at Rush University.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to be going back to the Midwest,\u201d said Jennings, who grew up in Orange County. \u201cI did a rotation there this summer, and had so much fun. My little sister is in medical school in Indiana, and I have lots of friends in Chicago, so it\u2019ll feel like a homecoming.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like Tang-Tan, Jennings tested his interest in health care in other capacities before medical school. He got some training as a medical assistant, and added skills in search and rescue and emergency medical response as a ski patroller in the Eastern Sierra.<\/p>\n
\u00a0In medical school, Jennings relished the chance for a hands-on education.<\/p>\n
\u201cTraining at USC has been absolutely incredible,\u201d he said. \u201cWe learn by doing, and they push you to take responsibility for your own patients, with appropriate supervision. That is a powerful experience that motivates you to learn so that you can better care for them \u2014 and not just them, but for your future patients as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jennings has learned in diverse settings. In addition to his rotations in the public health system at Los\u00a0Angeles General Medical Center and in private quaternary care at the Keck Hospital of USC, training in pediatric surgery at partner institution Children\u2019s Hospital Los\u00a0Angeles<\/a> influenced his desire to become a surgeon. He also got a lot out of providing care for unhoused people with the USC Street Medicine<\/a> team and for men and women in Los Angeles County jails.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that you can only get this kind of experience at USC,\u201d Jennings said. \u201cIt broadens your training so that you know how to deal with all sorts of problems. Ultimately, I want to not only care for my patients\u2019 immediate surgical issues, but also just be their doctor and help them out in other ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Classmate Jason Tsoi, meanwhile, was overjoyed to be remaining at USC for an internal medicine residency based at LA General Medical Center. He is among the 28% of the Class of 2026 pursuing postgraduate education there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my first choice,\u201d said Tsoi, whose family calls Diamond Bar, California, home. \u201cI\u2019m so happy about it. I worked hard to get here, and it feels really good to finally have these results in my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tsoi\u2019s love of science originally pulled him in two different career directions: the culinary arts or medicine. He went to culinary school while he was a USC undergraduate, but his heart ultimately led him to train as a physician.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found more value in doing health care, and its promise of helping those in need,\u201d Tsoi said. \u201cLearning how to use science to improve lives was really what I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked hard to get here, and it feels really good to finally have these results in my hands. All the patients admitted to the hospital are going to have some contact with their primary internal medicine doctor, who is going to help them navigate the process. Being an internal medicine physician is kind of like being the quarterback of this team.\u201d<\/p>\n
- Jason Tsoi<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\"Jason
Jason Tsoi matched into internal medicine at LA General Medical Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Tsoi absorbed lessons in treating the patient rather than the disease during a rotation that had him working with infectious disease expert Devin Clark, MD, a lecturer in population and public health sciences. Clark encouraged him to consider all the complexities that can influence a person\u2019s health.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe inspired me to be a better clinician,\u201d Tsoi said. \u201cHe has encyclopedic knowledge, and not just in his own field, and a grand love for all things medicine. I saw that if I\u2019m consistent about my learning, maybe one day I can also have this vast amount of knowledge and use it to take care of my patients.\u201d<\/p>\n
Internal medicine appeals to Tsoi for its breadth and the chance to play an instrumental role in patient care.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the patients admitted to the hospital are going to have some contact with their primary internal medicine doctor, who is going to help them navigate the process,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing an internal medicine physician is kind of like being the quarterback of this team. We\u2019re there when things are great but, most importantly, we\u2019re there when patients start declining \u2014 being there for the patients and covering a lot of different bases.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, the Keck School of Medicine\u2019s dean closed her remarks during the morning\u2019s program with a meditation on the central importance of truly caring for patients.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour patients won\u2019t remember which precision medicine approach you used to help fight their illness,\u201d Meltzer said, \u201cbut they will remember the wise and empathetic physician who stood by them when times were toughest.\u201d<\/p>\n
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