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Future doctors get their assignments | The Columbus Dispatch Javascript is disabled in your browser. Clare Kelleher stood today with 191 other medical-school seniors, all clutching envelopes that
contained their futures.
At noon, a horn blew through the auditorium at Ohio State's Fawcett Center, and Kelleher
ripped open the envelope and saw the words she was hoping to see.
As in Johns Hopkins, her first choice.
Similar scenes played out across the country yesterday as the National Resident Match Program
placed 14,566 medical students, matching students who chose a training hospital with hospitals that
also want them.
Medical schools also are urging their students to consider primary care, at a time when the
trend has been that physicians specialize in areas that pay more.
Thirty-nine percent of OSU's medical students are going into primary care, which includes
family medicine and pediatrics. OSU officials want to see 50 percent. An aging population and a
push for health-care reform have increased the demand for primary-care doctors.
Kelleher, 25, who grew up in Worthington and got her undergraduate degree at Miami
University, plans to train in internal medicine and wants to work in a hospital. Click here to read the full article |