Match Day comes every March when medical students across the country learn their residency placements.  For the third year, students in Mrs. Janine Koenig’s Bio II classes and Dr. Brian Credo’s Premed classes at Archbishop Rummel High School participated in their Match Day.  The two teachers followed a lesson plan adapted from the American Association of Medical Colleges’ lesson plans for high school students.

“We recreate a similar event here at Dominican,” said Mrs. Koenig. “Prior to the event, Dr. Credo comes to school and talks to our students about the impact of faith in practicing medicine, and the current requirements to enter medical school. My students have an assignment to investigate residency programs which requires them to pick a specialty and hospital program. Along with Dr. Credo’s class, we open envelopes all at the same time in a ceremony here in the Tech Center. Then each student must interact with at least three others from Rummel to find out their specialty and residency program.”

Mrs. Koenig added that the Match Day for those students who are interested in medicine, it is informative. “Other students who are not currently interested may consider medicine as a possibility for the first time. We also have some students select other Allied Health careers and Veterinary Medicine. Each year there have been a variety of specialties chosen by our students, and I enjoy reading why they chose their particular specialty. This year Radiology, Psychiatry, and Obstetrics and Gynecology were the most popular.”

Photos by yearbook club member Lauren Webre ’25.