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>> Narrator Alexandra Roth, UH student: Match Day at the University of Hawaii at Manoa John
A Burns School of Medicine, an annual event where soon-to-be graduates are matched with
residency programs.
[Screams of joy]
>> Narrator: It happens in one simultaneous moment at medical schools all over the world,
7 a.m. Hawaii time. The students learn where they will begin their careers as MDs-in-training.
It started with each one receiving a sealed envelope containing information that will
have a huge impact on their lives and then they had to wait.
>> Kendra Dilcher: UH medical student: I hated it. I wanted to rip it open right as soon
as we got it. I had family from all over the country texting me asking me where I’m going
and I hate knowing it was sitting on my lap and I couldn’t look.
>> Jodi Kagihara: UH medical student: It was a lot of anxiety built up, nervousness, you
know flash backs to all the hard work our whole class has put in.
>> Narrator: Then came the moment of truth, where they find out where they will be spending
the next three to seven years of their lives, depending on their specialty.
>> Thomas Aldan, UH medical student: There were a little bit of butterflies, just that
initially opening, but when I opened the letter, everything was confirmed so I was pretty happy.
>> Jared Pate, UH medical student: I think a sigh of relief, just to know where you are
going and where you will be spending the next five years of our lives.
>> Ben Greidanus, UH medical student: Definitely a memorable time in my career and I think
in our family’s life to find out where we are going for the next few years.
>> Dilcher: Really exciting, a soon as I saw UH, staying home in Hawaii, born and raised
here, I couldn’t be happier. I never left, wanted to stay here, work with the population
that supported me growing up so it was a blessing.
>> Narrator: And every year, the students say Match Day is one of the most important
days of their lives.
>> Dilcher: I can’t remember a time where I have been more happy. I have my family here
supporting me. It’s one of the biggest steps I have ever taken in my career so it is really
important to me that my dreams came true.
>> Pate: For me, I think orthopedic surgery has been a dream of mine since I was a child
playing sports all my life so I think this is finally a culmination of all of my dreams
coming true.
>> Kagihara: This kind of marks the beginning of taking that next step after medical school,
you know into the real world and becoming a physician.
>> The event always ends with the students gathering for a Match Day group picture, knowing
they are weeks away from saying aloha to their home for the last four years, JABSOM, the
John A Burns School of Medicine.
>> Kagihara: I really want to thank all the faculty and staff here at JABSOM, my friends
and family for all the support they have given me and you know, just the opportunity that
University of Hawaii has given.
>> Pate: I think they have provided me the structure of learning that is necessary for
me to succeed in life and in medical school.
>> Aldan: They definitely pushed me and help me discover new limits to myself and I am
just very happy to be here and be a part of this program.
>> Greidanus: I feel like I have had a great education and I have made a lot of friends
and it is sad to leave. It is sad to close this chapter but I feel privilege to be able
to come here.