Sasrutha Wickramasinghe and his wife, Dinoo Wickramasinghe, celebrate his receiving his first-choice residency: Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Photo by Keith Weller

By Eric Vohr
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Although the majority of the nation's fourth-year medical students can go online to find out which residencies are theirs, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine continues its ritual of gathering and opening official letters in the presence of classmates, professors and loved ones.

Promptly at noon on March 19, the National Residency Matching Program's Match Day 2009, the students — who had already rank-ordered lists of medical centers and hospitals, completed lengthy paperwork and sat for interviews — simultaneously opened envelopes to learn where they will do specialty training.

"Match Day is one of those memorable milestones in medical school careers," says Thomas Koenig, associate dean for student affairs. "It's a chance for us as a school to celebrate our students' achievements and to look ahead to their even greater accomplishments in the years to come. Wherever they match, they will always be considered Hopkins' own."

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