{"id":57887,"date":"2017-03-21T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T02:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=57887"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:32:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:32:47","slug":"john-a-burns-school-of-medicine-celebrates-match2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/21\/john-a-burns-school-of-medicine-celebrates-match2017\/","title":{"rendered":"John A. Burns School of Medicine celebrates #Match2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vimeo video player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/208893686?color=28a853\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Internal medicine and pediatrics won the popularity contest as 55 seniors in the <abbr title=\"Medical Doctor\">MD<\/abbr> Class of 2017 at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> John A. Burns School of Medicine &ldquo;matched&rdquo; into post-medical school <abbr>MD<\/abbr> training programs. Coming in a close third was surgery, with psychiatry, at fourth place, on its heels.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM) Match Day Ceremony kicked off at the coffee-fueled hour of 6 a.m. At that same moment, the clocks in other time zones around the country read later hours, but\u00a0all\u00a0of America&#8217;s medical school seniors were doing the same thing: gathering to experience &ldquo;The Match.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Senior <strong>David Niumatalolo<\/strong>, who played football at Kahuku High School and at New Mexico State University, is going to be a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician. &ldquo;I matched the first year at the University of Las Vegas and then I&#8217;m going to the University of Washington after that,&rdquo; said Niumatalolo. &ldquo;I couldn&#8217;t be happier, I get to do exactly what I want to do, so perfect news, one of the happiest days of my life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57894\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Manoa-JABSOM-MDco2017.jpg\" alt=\"group of people with lei and balloon numbers 2017\" width=\"620\" height=\"353\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Manoa-JABSOM-MDco2017.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Manoa-JABSOM-MDco2017-260x148.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <abbr>MD<\/abbr> Class of 2017 at <abbr title=\"John A. Burns School of Medicine\">JABSOM<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>What is the match?\u2028<\/h2>\n<p>The match is the centralized process that pairs the physicians who will graduate this May with training programs in specialty fields in which they want to become board-certified. In the months before Match Day, each student has typically visited residency programs around the country and applied to several&#8212;&ldquo;ranking&rdquo; his or her own list of favored training spots. The training programs, in turn, list the <abbr>MD<\/abbr> applicants they want to accept. The National Matching Residency Program (NMRP) uses the rankings and an algorithm to perform the match.<\/p>\n<p>On Match Day, the future physicians open specially prepared envelopes containing the news they have been waiting for&#8212;where they can begin their careers as doctors in training.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Match Day read the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/match2017-hawaii-medical-students-will-begin-practicing-in-residency-programs-from-honolulu-to-boston\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal Medicine and pediatrics won the popularity contest as 55 medical school seniors were matched into post-medical school training programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[165,31,9],"class_list":["post-57887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-health","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57887"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113739,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57887\/revisions\/113739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}