{"id":128440,"date":"2024-03-15T20:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128440"},"modified":"2024-03-15T20:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T00:44:03","slug":"historic-first-match-day-for-graduating-medical-students-held-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128440","title":{"rendered":"Historic First: Match Day for Graduating Medical Students Held in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moment when Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s medical student Eva Munshower learns her match. Her father, Thomas Munshower, D.O., a family medicine physician with St. Luke\u2019s, gives the thumbs up as he looks on from behind her.<\/em><\/p>\n

Local medical student Eva Munshower says she is \u201cso happy\u201d to learn that she will spend her next five years training as a new doctor in a general surgery residency at St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network. She got the news at noon, today, March 15, when she opened an envelope at the Match Day ceremony.<\/p>\n

Match Day is a national rite of passage for fourth-year medical school students moving onto residency programs. A complex algorithm matches the students\u2019 top choice of residencies with the programs\u2019 top choice of students. Post-graduate medical education can last three to eight years, including residency and fellowship.<\/p>\n

Making this year\u2019s Match Day extra special, the Katz School of Medicine celebrated Match Day on both its North Philadelphia Campus and in Bethlehem. At precisely noon, the 38 students from the St. Luke\u2019s campus simultaneously opened the envelopes that contained the letters identifying their residency programs.<\/p>\n

Munshower is following in the footsteps of her father, Thomas Munshower, D.O., a family medicine physician with St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network. Dr. Munshower attended Match Day with his daughter and the rest of their family at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks.<\/p>\n

Eva Munshower was one of 10 of the class of 38 to match to residencies at St. Luke\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most meaningful part of this day was that our students learned of their futures right here in the community that supported them from day one,\u201d said Shaden Eldakar-Hein, M.D., Senior Associate Dean and Professor Lewis Katz School of Medicine, St. Luke\u2019s Campus. \u201cEvery student means so much to us, and when they opened their envelopes, we were so incredibly happy and proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Lehigh Valley native, Munshower will graduate in May and fell in love with general surgery when, while a student at Central Catholic High School, she was invited to watch an operation in the OR of Sacred Heart Hospital.<\/p>\n

The Lewis Katz School of Medicine, St. Luke\u2019s campus in Fountain Hill is the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school, where the region\u2019s brightest young minds go to become doctors. By cultivating home-grown medical talent, the Katz – St. Luke\u2019s campus is helping the region to secure its health and well-being amid a doctor shortage nationally.<\/p>\n

Hellertown resident Kate Arner\u2019s envelope revealed that she has matched into a St. Luke\u2019s four-year neurology residency, a dream come true. Her love of medical science dates back to \u200bseventh grade and the influence of a science teacher who included anatomy and physiology lessons in the curriculums. Arner, who majored in neuroscience and pre-med at Moravian University, is excited to be staying in the Lehigh Valley as a Neurologist\u00a0to serve the community she grew up in and to be surrounded by her family and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to be on this life-enriching journey at St. Luke\u2019s where I have learned so much over these past four years,\u201d said Arner, whose family\u2014including her 96-year-old grandmother\u2014attended Match Day.\u00a0\u201cWhen I opened my envelope, my grandmother cried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her classmate, Josh Elmer, a Watertown, New York, native, matched to an internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He has his sights set ultimately on practicing gastroenterology (GI) medicine, with St. Luke\u2019s as one of his possible career destinations. Discovering where he has matched at the ceremony in Bethlehem added a special synergy to the culmination of this first stage of his medical training.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling overwhelmed, excited, and really appreciative,\u201d he said after opening his envelope. \u201cSt. Luke\u2019s prepared me phenomenally. St. Luke\u2019s is all about the people, and medicine is all about the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Dr. Eldakar-Hein, \u201cAny hospital and residency program will be fortunate to welcome one of our graduates. Each member of our 2024 class has demonstrated repeatedly that they will make skilled, thoughtful, and compassionate physicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eva Munshower\u2019s professional role model has always been her Dad, and she is sure of her passion as she continues on her chosen path: \u201cMedicine is my calling; it\u2019s how I want to give back to the community where I grew up.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what I\u2019ve always dreamed of doing, and it will be a gift to practice here at St. Luke\u2019s like my father.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Full list of Matching Institutions, St. Luke\u2019s Class of 2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anesthesiology<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Maryland, MD<\/p>\n

Penn State Med Ctr, PA<\/p>\n

NYU Grossman SOM, NY<\/p>\n

Diagnostic Radiology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Albert Einstein HTH Center, PA<\/p>\n

Stony Brook Teaching Hosp, NY<\/p>\n

Dermatology<\/strong><\/p>\n

SLUHN\u200b<\/p>\n

Emergency Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

SLUHN- Anderson<\/p>\n

SLUHN- Bethlehem<\/p>\n

University of Rochester, NY<\/p>\n

\u00a0Family Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

SLUHN \u2013 Bethlehem<\/p>\n

SLUHN\u200b\u2014\u200bAnderson\u200b<\/p>\n

Lancaster Gen Hosp<\/p>\n

Internal Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

SLUHN- Bethlehem<\/p>\n

Mayo Clinic, MN<\/p>\n

Methodist Hospital, TX<\/p>\n

George Washington, DC<\/p>\n

Zucker SOM Northwell<\/p>\n

Duke University Med Ctr, NC<\/p>\n

Rutgers NJ SOM, NJ<\/p>\n

General Surgery<\/strong><\/p>\n

SLUHN- Bethlehem<\/p>\n

Surgery- Preliminary Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Jefferson, PA<\/p>\n

Zucker SOM Northwell<\/p>\n

Neurology<\/strong><\/p>\n

SLUHN<\/p>\n

UCLA Medical Ctr<\/p>\n

NYU Grossman SOM, NY<\/p>\n

Occupational Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

US Army<\/p>\n

Obstetrics-Gynecology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lankenau Medical Center, PA<\/p>\n

University of Rochester, NY<\/p>\n

Pathology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dartmouth Medical Ctr, NH<\/p>\n

Pediatrics<\/strong><\/p>\n

SLUHN<\/p>\n

Nemours Childrens Health, PA<\/p>\n

NYU Grossman SOM, NY<\/p>\n

Psychiatry<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPENN<\/p>\n

Radiation Oncology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duke University Med Ctr, NC<\/p>\n

Transitional Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

SLUHN<\/p>\n

Trinity Health, MI<\/p>\n

US Army<\/p>\n

Urology\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Temple Univ Hosp, PA<\/p>\n

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About St. Luke\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n

Founded in 1872,\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 20,000 employees providing services at 15 campuses and 300+ outpatient sites.\u00a0 With annual net revenue of $3.4 billion, the Network\u2019s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke\u2019s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke\u2019s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania.\u00a0 In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school campus.\u00a0 It also operates the nation\u2019s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 45 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 400 residents and fellows. In 2022, St. Luke\u2019s, a member of the Children\u2019s Hospital Association, opened the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids.<\/p>\n

SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare\u2019s\u00a0five-star<\/em>\u00a0ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction.\u00a0 It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades\u00a0Top Hospital<\/em>\u00a0and a Newsweek World\u2019s\u00a0Best Hospital<\/em>.\u00a0 The Network\u2019s flagship University Hospital has earned the\u00a0100 Top Major Teaching Hospital<\/em>\u00a0designation from Fortune\/PINC AI 11 times total and eight years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.\u00a0 In 2021, St. Luke\u2019s was identified as one of the\u00a015 Top Health Systems<\/em>\u00a0nationally.\u00a0 Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the\u00a0Most Wired<\/em>\u00a0award recognizing the breadth of the SLUHN\u2019s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information. \u00a0The Network is also recognized as one of the state\u2019s lowest cost providers.<\/p>\n

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