38 new physicians to continue training in Inland Empire

Members of the graduating class of medical students at Colton’s California University of Science and Medicine recently received their residency placements for next year as part of the national Match Day event.

More than 33% of the graduating physicians will perform their residencies in the Inland Empire and 78% are matched to programs in California, according to a news release.

Match Day is the culmination of the National Resident Matching Program, in which all graduating medical students seek residency positions in their chosen specialties. At the same time across the country, this year at 9 a.m. Pacific Time on March 15, graduating medical students learned where they will spend the next three to seven years of their lives.

“Medical school is rigorous and challenging every day. But Match Day is the most emotional and fulfilling day of the medical school journey,” Dr. Paul Lyons, dean and president of the California University of Science and Medicine, said in the news release. “It is the culmination of years of study, commitment and intensity. It is the next chapter in their journey to becoming caring and compassionate health-care providers.”

At the California University of Science and Medicine, graduating students and their families gathered on campus for Match Day, to celebrate with their colleagues.

Of this year’s graduating medical school class of California University of Science and Medicine, 89 class members were matched to residencies in California, and of those, 38 were matched to residencies in the Inland Empire, according to the news release.

The top specialties chosen include internal medicine, family medicine, emergency medicine and psychiatry.

“I am ecstatic that so many of our students will remain in the Inland Empire and Southern California communities to continue their medical journey,” Lyons said in the news release.

California University of Science and Medicine is a not-for-profit health sciences university established in 2015 through a private-public partnership with Arrowhead Regional Medical Center as its teaching hospital, San Bernardino County, the city of Colton and Prime Healthcare Foundation.

For information, go to cusm.edu.