Today, graduating medical students all over the country found out where they’ll be doing their residencies. The 2010 Match was the largest on record, with 30,543 applicants. More than 16,000 of them were U.S. medical school seniors, and, consistent with tradition, the 100 new doctors coming out of Eastern Virginia Medical School celebrated in style.A photo album of images from the event is available on the EVMS Facebook page with additional shots posted to the EVMS Flickr gallery.
Residency encompasses the three (or more) years of training that is required before medical school graduates can become practicing physicians. The number of applicants this year is 655 more than last year and 3,800 more than 2006 with 73 more positions offered than last year.
Conducted annually by the National Resident Matching Program, the match is based on a computerized mathematical algorithm. The process is engineered to produce a best result by aligning the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency programs in order to fill the thousands of open training positions at U.S. teaching hospitals.
EVMS students aided by faculty in the department of emergency medicine are hosting the 2010 Mid-Atlantic MedWAR (Medical Wilderness Adventure Race) March 27 at Newport News Park, Newport News, Va. The event features adventure racing and wilderness-medicine challenges to create a fun, unique experience that tests wilderness survival as well as medical skills. MedWAR is open to anyone over 18 years old regardless of medical experience. For more information or to register, visit 
ical schools are selling the t-shirts (pictured at right) for $15. Proceeds from the sales are donated to Partners in Health, an established medical-relief organization with a history of providing primary care in Haiti.
ical schools are selling the t-shirts (pictured at right) for $15. Proceeds from the sales are donated to Partners in Health, an established medical-relief organization with a history of providing primary care in Haiti.
Alfred Abuhamad, MD, chair of obstetrics and gynecology and one of the nation’s leading experts in maternal-fetal medicine, recently released the second edition of his book A Practical Guide to Fetal Echocardiography: Normal and Abnormal Hearts . The book addresses how to evaluate fetal cardiography and describes how to confirm the diagnosis when faced with congenital heart disease.
The EVMS Department of Internal Medicine received several awards during the Jan. 23 meeting of the Virginia chapter of the American College of Physicians in Norfolk. Mark C. Flemmer, MD, associate professor, was the first ever to be honored with a new award, Clinical Faculty of the Year. Dr. Flemmer also coached EVMS residents Michael Gonzalez, MD, Jen Hofstra, MD, and Jody Boggs, MD, in the Jeopardy competition. The team took first place. Residents Abhijeet Nakave, MD, Doug Summerfield, MD, and Sue Szulc, MD, were among the top four presenters at the conference and will advance to the state ACP meeting in March.
Michael Panitz, PhD, Rabbi of Temple Israel in Norfolk, called on the audience at Eastern Virginia Medical School’s 24th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration to honor Dr. King’s legacy by actively living his ideals of brotherhood and equality.
Alfred Abuhamad, MD, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at EVMS, was in Haiti concluding a class for local physicians and midwives in the use of ultrasound when the earthquake struck.
