WCM-Q students celebrate residency placement at top global institutions

Soon-to-graduate medical students of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) gathered at the college to celebrate securing places in residency programmes at some of the most prestigious healthcare institutions in the world.WCM-Q students ‘matched’ at leading institutions including NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Centre, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Yale New Haven Hospital, Lincoln Medical Centre in New York, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre and Hamad Medical Corporation where they will continue their training after graduation in May. The annual Match Day event is the moment students discover whether they have been accepted onto a residency programme in a medical specialty of their choice. The process is highly competitive – this year 54,110 US and international medical school students vied for just 28,849 positions. The match results for students applying to residency programmes at HMC were announced shortly after the US results. Students who graduate from WCM-Q’s Medical Programme receive the same MD degree as graduates of Weill Cornell Medicine-New York. Many WCM-Q graduates return to Qatar after they have completed their residency training in the US to work locally.