Future doctors survive another Match Day

March 17, 2000
Web posted at: 5:37 p.m. EST (2237 GMT)

(CNN) -- Medical students across the United States gathered Thursday for the annual event known as Match Day, the time fourth-year students learn which residency program has accepted them. For these future doctors it is a day of drama, hope and sometimes despair.

Each year, the event takes place at the same time at all medical schools nationwide. Together graduating students open their invitations and learn where they will be doing their residency. Each hopes the match will be the one they want.

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Emory University in Atlanta is among the nation's top 25 medical schools. In this year's graduating class, 97 percent of the students matched and nearly two-thirds were paired with their first choice.

CNN Medical Correspondent Rhonda Rowland was at Emory for the big day and visited with medical students as they learned what their futures will hold.

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