More than 130 medical students at Penn State College of Medicine discovered March 15 where they will spend their residencies in an annual tradition known as Match Day.
Match Day 2013_249
Fourth-year medical students celebrate moments after ripping open their Match Day envelopes.
Match Day 2013
Frederick Yoo holds the last class meeting for the Class of 2013.
Match Day 2013
Penn State College of Medicine Dean Harold L. Paz, M.D. addresses the students as they eagerly await their envelopes.
Match Day 2013
Kevin Rakszawski, a fourth-year medical student, and his wife, Elizabeth, toast to the future.
Match Day 2013
Dr. Dwight Davis, associate dean for admissions and student affairs, hugs one of the students after he receives his envelope.
Match Day 2013
Two students try to 'sneak a peak' through the envelope shortly before the countdown.
Match Day 2013
Jessica Walrath, the last medical student to collect her envelope, won the Dollar Donated at the Door prize money. She will decide which charity receives the donated funds.
Match Day 2013
Angeliki Vgontzas and Eleanor Goldwasser pose with their letters. Vgontzas, whose specialty is neurology, is headed to Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, both in Bronx, New York, and Goldwasser is going to University of Massachusetts to practice plastic surgery.
Match Day 2013
Jessica Walrath, Katie Niehoff, and Emily Nebzydoski celebrate. Walrath will be starting her career in emergency medicine at Yale University, Niehoff will be going to Lancaster General Hospital to practice family medicine, and Nebzydoski is off to the University of Rochester for pediatrics.
Match Day 2013
Anny Smucker reacts to all the excitement. She will be staying here at Penn State Hershey to practice dermatology.
