Newly graduated doctors of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) have matched with residency programmes at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions in Qatar and the US.
These include Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Case Western/University Hospital Cleveland, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania, Tufts Medical Centre in Boston, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Centre, among others.
The medical specialties the new doctors will be pursuing are anaesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynaecology, paediatrics and psychiatry. They will join their residency programmes in the fall.
Nasser al-Kuwari matched with the internal medicine residency programme at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond, Virginia. Speaking at an event held to mark Match Day, he said: “I am so happy to have achieved this match and very grateful to my family, friends and the faculty at WCM-Q for their kindness and support, which has allowed me to reach this goal. I hope and have faith that we will all go on to achieve our ultimate aim of providing excellent care to our patients for many years to come, as well as making great contributions to research, medical education and our communities.”
Match Day is a momentous occasion in any doctor’s career, with thousands of students in the US and all over the world vying for places on residency programmes. The process, which is administered by the National Resident Matching Programme in Washington, DC, this year saw 42,000 applicants competing for 39,205 positions.
This year, 13 WCM-Q graduates matched at HMC and 27 with residency programmes in the US. The event featured speeches by Dr Thurayya Arayssi, vice dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs at WCM-Q, and Dr Sean Holroyd, associate dean for Student Affairs, both of whom congratulated the new doctors.
Dr Javaid Sheikh, dean of WCM-Q, spoke at the event and thanked Qatar Foundation and Qatar for the ongoing support for WCM-Q and to pay tribute to the achievements of the graduates. He said: “Match Day is truly a rite of passage in the lives of medical students and you will have fond memories of this moment that will stay with you forever. More than this, Match Day is a signifier that you have made it through an extremely rigorous course of study that has demanded immense hard work, determination, and self-sacrifice. It has been a pleasure and an honour for myself and the faculty to have joined you on this journey.”
The medical specialties the new doctors will be pursuing are anaesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynaecology, paediatrics and psychiatry. They will join their residency programmes in the fall.
Nasser al-Kuwari matched with the internal medicine residency programme at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond, Virginia. Speaking at an event held to mark Match Day, he said: “I am so happy to have achieved this match and very grateful to my family, friends and the faculty at WCM-Q for their kindness and support, which has allowed me to reach this goal. I hope and have faith that we will all go on to achieve our ultimate aim of providing excellent care to our patients for many years to come, as well as making great contributions to research, medical education and our communities.”
Match Day is a momentous occasion in any doctor’s career, with thousands of students in the US and all over the world vying for places on residency programmes. The process, which is administered by the National Resident Matching Programme in Washington, DC, this year saw 42,000 applicants competing for 39,205 positions.
This year, 13 WCM-Q graduates matched at HMC and 27 with residency programmes in the US. The event featured speeches by Dr Thurayya Arayssi, vice dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs at WCM-Q, and Dr Sean Holroyd, associate dean for Student Affairs, both of whom congratulated the new doctors.
Dr Javaid Sheikh, dean of WCM-Q, spoke at the event and thanked Qatar Foundation and Qatar for the ongoing support for WCM-Q and to pay tribute to the achievements of the graduates. He said: “Match Day is truly a rite of passage in the lives of medical students and you will have fond memories of this moment that will stay with you forever. More than this, Match Day is a signifier that you have made it through an extremely rigorous course of study that has demanded immense hard work, determination, and self-sacrifice. It has been a pleasure and an honour for myself and the faculty to have joined you on this journey.”