CHSU medical students find out where they'll complete their residency at 'Match Day' celebration

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It was an breathtaking time for aboriginal doctors astatine California Health Sciences University.

Friday was "Match Day," meaning students recovered retired wherever they'll implicit their residency program.

From the infinitesimal they woke up Friday, anticipation was building.

"I didn't deliberation I'd beryllium this anxious, but I deliberation I'm much excited, to beryllium honest, to conscionable find retired wherever I'm going to walk the adjacent fewer years training," CHSU pupil David Brown said.

CHSU students person been studying for a agelong clip to go doctors.

"Stupid long," Brown confirmed.

All those years person been preparing them for their residency and starring up to "Match Day," erstwhile they find retired wherever they're going to proceed learning.

Brown is going into household medicine.

"You get to conscionable the astir people. You get to physique relationships. You get to, benignant of like, you know, spot them the longest. And truthful I benignant of, I similar that the most," Brown said.

Born and raised successful Visalia, helium and his parents are hoping he'll get to enactment adjacent to home.

"So I really, truly wanted to enactment local. Fingers crossed. That's wherever I matched. So that was the goal," Brown said.

Just earlier 9 am, students took their seats.

After a fewer unit speeches, pom poms were passed retired and the countdown began.

The clip had yet travel for students to spot wherever they were headed next.

It didn't instrumentality agelong earlier the celebrations began.

CHSU achieved a 100% lucifer complaint for the Class of 2025.

Students were selected to spell to Stanford, Kaiser Oakland, Loma Linda Murrieta and aggregate locations successful the Central Valley.

For Brown, helium was relieved arsenic helium recovered retired helium was heading to Adventist Health Tulare.

"That was my apical choice," Brown said arsenic helium hugged his parents.

Dean of CHSU Osteopathic Medicine, John Graneto, says this was the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment that 100% of students graduating received a match.

Twenty-one percent of students were selected to enactment close present successful the Central Valley to implicit their residency.

"So from Stockton down to Bakersfield, we person tons of our students staying astatine Kaweah Delta, UCSF Fresno downtown, Kern successful Bakersfield, and St. Joseph's Hospital successful Stockton," Graneto said.

Of the 109 students total, 50 percent are staying successful the state.

Graneto says that increases the likelihood they'll enactment and signifier successful California.

"That's precise important for each of america arsenic we person our ngo to summation the fig of doctors, which increases entree to attraction for each the citizens of California," Graneto said.

Brown says he's acceptable for this adjacent chapter.

"I'm conscionable looking guardant to the future. Honestly, it's what I wanted for the longest time. So yeah, I'm conscionable acceptable to get started," Brown said.

All students who matched Friday volition postgraduate successful May earlier heading disconnected to their residencies.

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