For Release: 1 p.m. ET March 20, 2003
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Dartmouth Medical Students Match

HANOVER, NH - This year 55 out of 60 graduating medical students took part in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) to learn where they will be spending the next three to seven years as residents in U.S. teaching hospitals. Three students matched to military programs, one obtained an early match, and one graduate matched to a hospital in Canada.

Most DMS seniors learned of their match in a ceremony at noon, joining 23,965 other fourth-year medical students across the nation. The NRPM has been successfully matched students to hospitals since 1952 and is an indicator of the career interests of future physicians. The two most popular specialties at Dartmouth, internal medicine and pediatrics, echoed a national increase in interest in these areas for 2003.

In terms of geographic placements, ten students will head to California for their training, nine will be in Massachusetts, eight in New York and six will remain in New Hampshire, interning at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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