(March 21, 2025) — Friends and families joined the School of Medicine graduating Class of 2025 for the annual Match Day celebration March 21 at the Leavey Center. Letters inside sealed envelopes revealed the residency locations and the next step in the journey for almost 200 future physicians. Surrounded by dozens of Georgetown University professors and MedStar Health physicians, the medical students opened their letters simultaneously just before noon.
Graduating medical students anxiously filled the Leavey Center Ballroom on March 21 to learn where their journeys would take them next for residency training. The annual Match Day celebration is a tradition shared by medical students across the country, where they all find out the residency program they have “matched” with at the same time on the same day.…
In 2023, Sarah Lucas (M’24) didn’t match with a residency program. Now a first-year resident in orthopedic surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Lucas looks back on that Match Week as divine intervention.…