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For members of the Texas Children's Hospital medical staff
From the physician-in-chief
Top med students match with Texas Children's
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Dr. Ralph D. Feigin |
By Ralph D. Feigin, M.D.
March 15 was a special day in the lives of all U.S. medical school senior students. It was, of course, Match Day – the day on which each student learns where he or she is going to spend the next three to five years of his or her medical career. We at Texas Children’s Hospital also eagerly await that day because it
not only is the day on which we are informed about whether the various residency and fellowship programs for pediatric medicine and surgical specialties are filled, but even more important, we learn the names and schools of those individuals who are matched to the program. For the past five months, hundreds of applicants have personally visited Texas Children’s and interviewed with members of the medical staff.
The largest such program at Texas Children’s Hospital is the categorical pediatric residency training program. These are individuals who will be at Texas Children’s Hospital continuously during the subsequent period of three years. Many of these individuals also remain here for more extended periods of time during the course of subsequent fellowship training. We are pleased to inform you that, once again, the very top students were matched to our program. The incoming group includes 40 individuals of whom 36 matched during the matching process. Four additional individuals were accepted outside the Match because they had graduated from medical school at least 12 months previously and had intervening experiences of various types, including mission work, research or work in various governmental programs such as at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These individuals come from 22 different medical schools from all over the United States. The schools represented include Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, University of Texas at Dallas, Southwestern Medical School, Texas Tech University School of Medicine, University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Howard University School of Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Kansas City, Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, George Washington University School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
In addition to the students who matched to the categorical pediatric program, four additional students were matched. These individuals will spend two years in pediatrics and three or four years in pediatric neurology or developmental neurology. They come from Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas, Dallas Southwestern Medical School.
We also matched with eight students for the medicine-pediatric combined residency program who come from Baylor College of Medicine, East Carolina University, State University of New York – Upstate Medical School, University of Texas, Dallas Southwestern Medical School, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
A complete list of all of the incoming residents and new fellows, both in medicine and surgical subspecialties, will be included in the July newsletter when we are informed by the parent departments of the names of those individuals who will be rotating to Texas Children’s.
I know that you join me in thanking the many members of the medical staff who have participated in the arduous selection process and who donate so many hours of their time and effort to ensure a continuing supply of pediatric trained generalists and specialists for the future.
Ralph D. Feigin, M.D., is physician-in-chief at Texas Children’s Hospital and professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.
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