Senior medical students in the Class of 2014 at SIU School of Medicine celebrated with family and friends when they learned their destination “matches” to postgraduate training programs across the country.
Sixty-five SIU seniors have secured residency positions in the following medical specialties:
- eleven in pediatrics
- ten in internal medicine
- eight in emergency medicine
- four each in anesthesiology, dermatology, family medicine, general surgery
- three each in orthopaedic surgery and urology
- two each in medicine-pediatrics, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology and radiology
- one each in medicine-psychiatry, neurological surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics-primary and plastic surgery
“I am pleased that so many of our students have chosen primary care specialties for their residency training,” said Dr. J. Kevin Dorsey, Ph.D., dean and provost. “With so many of our graduates staying in the region, we can continue to strengthen the health-care services for our citizens.”
The Class of 2014 at SIU School of Medicine will graduate on Saturday, May 17. New physicians begin their residency training in July 2014.
Established in 1970, the mission of SIU School of Medicine is to assist the people of central and southern Illinois in meeting their health needs through education, patient care, research and community service. An international leader in medical education, the School is based in Carbondale and Springfield and is specifically oriented to educating new physicians prepared to practice in Illinois. Since opening, 2,545 physicians have graduated from its program.
View the complete list of SIU student match information here. See more photos here.