Success for WCMC-Q students at Match Day
April, 2012
Eight students will continue their training at Hamad Medical
Corporation while 20 will be going to institutions in the U.S.
Students at WCMC-Q have been celebrating after learning where they will spend their residency programs following graduation.
The results were announced at WCMC-Q’s Match Day, an annual event in the U.S. when students in medical schools across the country who are applying for residency training programs learn the name of the hospital where they will receive advance training in their medical specialty.
Of the 31 students seeking post-graduate placements, 20 will be continuing their training in the U.S. while eight will go to Hamad Medical Corporation. The remaining three will pursue research work for a year.
Dr. Javaid Sheikh, Dean of WCMC-Q, offered his congratulations to the students on behalf of all the faculty and staff at the college.
He said: “WCMC-Q graduates have again shown that they can successfully compete with their peers from the U.S., gaining residencies at some of the best medical institutions in the United States.
“Significantly, several students also chose to complete postgraduate training at Hamad Medical Corporation, demonstrating that the continued improvement of standards of such training at Hamad and its recent accreditation by the American Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has made it very attractive for our graduates.”
The U.S. institutions that have accepted WCMC-Q students include New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Brooklyn Hospital Center and Rochester General Hospital.
Rama El-Yafawi matched with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System to train in internal medicine and said her time at WCMC-Q had prepared her well for the future.
She said: “The college is a small community and because of that we really learned about camaraderie and working as a team and that will definitely help me in the future.
“Eventually I hope to be involved in global health as I love travelling,” she added, “so hopefully I’ll get to see different places and make a difference in the world.”
