Match Day
March 17, 2011 11:30 AM 
Today’s a big day for medical students. It’s Match Day. And this morning at 11 o’clock graduating senior medical students at Shreveport’s LSU Health Sciences Center — along with fellow grads around the country — learned where they’ll be doing their residency training.In a long-standing tradition at the local med school, the seniors came forward one-by-one — opened sealed envelopes with their names on them — and announced the residency program where they’ve been matched. They also received gifts from the Office of Alumni Affairs, put some money in a basket, and drew the next envelope. Why the money in the basket? That went to the last student to come forward — for having to wait so long. Of this year’s local graduating class, almost sixty-percent will be staying in Louisiana and more than half of those will remain here in Shreveport.
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