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From
the physician-in-chief
Outstanding group ‘matches’ with Baylor and Texas Children’s Hospital
By Ralph D. Feigin, M.D.
Each year at this time, medical students across the country are notified of where they are going to spend the next three or more years of their life. “Match Day” is important to both the student and to the institutions to which they match. Texas Children’s Hospital serves as a training site for residents in pediatrics, for individuals in subspecialty training in the various subspecialty fellowship programs
(both in medical and surgical disciplines), and for the training of residents in general surgery, pathology, dermatology and psychiatry who must, as a requisite for their board certification, complete some rotations caring for pediatric patients. We were most pleased to note that all of the residency training programs at Baylor College of Medicine were filled through the Match this year.
The largest number of residents at Texas Children’s Hospital comes through the Match to the general categorical pediatric training program. Once again, the 37 positions were filled in the Match by an absolutely outstanding group of individuals. The incoming class, who will begin in late June, is comprised of students from the following 19 medical schools: Baylor College of Medicine; University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston; University of Texas Dallas Southwestern Medical Center; University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio; University of California, Irvine; University of Arizona; University of Missouri, Columbia; Washington University School of Medicine; University of Illinois; University of Nebraska; University of Alabama; University of South Carolina; Duke University School of Medicine; Medical College of Virginia; Medical College of Wisconsin; Drexel University (previously Hahnemann);
Cornell; George Washington; and Harvard.
Incoming class is bright and multitalented
Eight members of the incoming group have both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees; several
have M.D. and M.P.H. degrees; one has M.D. and M.B.A. degrees; and one has M.D.,
Ph.D. and M.P.H. degrees.
Twenty members have published scientific articles in the peer-reviewed medical
literature in journals such as Science, Nature, Neurobiology, Neurochemistry,
Cell, Pediatrics, New England Journal of Medicine, and other such prestigious
scientific publications.
Many of them have talents outside of medicine as musicians or nationally ranked
athletes. Two-thirds of the incoming residents are female and one-third are
male. More than one-third are married, and many of this group have children.
I know you join me in welcoming all of the new medical and surgical house staff
and fellows who will be joining the hospital. All of us particularly appreciate
the many contributions made by the residents and fellows to the care of all of
the patients at Texas Children’s Hospital.
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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