QU medical students find residency ‘match’

HAMDEN — Eighty-five students at Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine learned of their residency placements through the National Resident Matching Program Friday.

Class of 2019 members were among 44,600 medical students applying for 35,000 residencies in The Match, which uses a computer algorithm to produce a destination and a discipline for the next three or more years, according to a release.

“Kids are funny and surprise you in so many ways. They are not inundated with social norms and they are so honest. I want to be an advocate for them,” said Molly Clarke, a Cumberland, Rhode Island, native living in North Haven who intends to become a pediatrician and will continue her medical education at Children’s National in Washington, D.C., the release said.

Netter students matched with residency programs across the country, including Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University, Ohio State University Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, along with Connecticut affiliates Middlesex Health, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, and St. Vincent’s Medical Center, the release said.

The Netter students matched in 19 disciplines, including family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine and neurology. The residencies cover 25 states and the District of Columbia, the release said.

Contributed by Quinnipiac University Mark Quilon, left, a Sayreville, N.J., resident who lives in Hamden, high fives Bruce Koeppen, dean of Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, as part of Match Day festivities Friday in Quinnipiac’s Burt Kahn Court on the Mount Carmel Campus. Quilon matched with the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Staten Island University Hospital.

Molly Clarke, a Cumberland, R.I., native living in North Haven, center, shares her residency news with her parents, Christine and Robert.