MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO OPPORTUNITY

MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE

MATCH DAY 2009: Thursday, March 19

Annual Event Matches Meharry Medical Students to Residency Programs Nationwide

WHAT: The National Resident Matching Program conducts Match Day annually to match the preference of applicants with their choice of medical residency programs that offer available training positions at U.S. teaching hospitals. A resident is a medical school graduate who is undertaking a 3-7year-long period of specialized training in a medical specialty. More than 30,000 applicants throughout the country – including a host of students from Meharry Medical College School of Medicine– will discover where they will spend the next couple of years.

Match Day is punctuated by shouts of excitement, tears of joy and the roar laughter as students learn where they will advance to the next level of their medical training. One measurement of the success of a medical school is the degree to which its graduates are able to earn their preferred choices in the match.

WHEN: 11 a.m., Thursday, March 19, 2009

WHERE:

Compton-Nelson Auditorium

S. S. Kresge Learning Resources Center

1800 block of Albion Street

Between 21st Avenue North and Dr. D.B. Todd, Jr. Boulevard

Parking is available in the Albion Street Garage, located directly east of the Kresge Learning Resources Center.