Match Day is a national rite of passage for fourth-year medical school students moving on to residency programs. A complex algorithm matches the students\u2019 top choice of residencies with the programs\u2019 top choice of students.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s School of Medicine celebrated Match Day for the second year in a row in Bethlehem. Thirty-eight students matched to residency programs, including 13 programs at St. Luke\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cNational Match Day continues to be a special and meaningful event for our fourth-year medical students,\u201d said Shaden Eldakar-Hein, MD, senior associate dean and professor at the medical school. \u201cI feel honored to be a part of each member of our 2025 class\u2019s journey and am inspired by their compassion, curiosity and dedication to our field.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s School of Medicine in Bethlehem is the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school, where the region\u2019s best and brightest young minds explore their interests in education, service and medicine simultaneously. By cultivating home-grown medical talent, St. Luke\u2019s is helping the region to secure its future health and well-being amid a worsening doctor shortage nationally.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh-area native Logan Hellinger worked as a patient transporter during a gap year before starting medical school at Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s in Bethlehem. Since the day he was able to watch an open-heart surgery during a hospital shadowing program in high school, he says he was \u201csold that I wanted to do medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring my first year here, I had the opportunity to shadow a few emergency medicine residents. One of the first-year residents immediately asked what I wanted to learn, how she could teach me, and if I\u2019d like to come see patients with her,\u201d says Hellinger, whose family traveled across the state to be with him on Match Day. \u201cShe\u2019s a fellow here now who I had the privilege of working with on my ICU rotation and has been a longitudinal mentor from the residency side.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hellinger matched to Emergency Medicine at St. Luke\u2019s Anderson Campus.<\/p>\n
His classmate, Sierra Camburn, had a similar experience at St. Luke\u2019s, though hers started in high school. The Quakertown native once took part in a medical careers pathway program that allowed her to spend time at the Quakertown Campus several days a week. Additionally, as an undergrad at Penn State, she did a pre-med observership at the Bethlehem Campus. It was then that she fell in love with labor and delivery, and she now hopes to match into an obstetrics and gynecology residency.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the perks of coming to a campus like this is that everyone has been a mentor,\u201d Camburn said before rattling off a long list of names of those who have helped her along the way. \u201cThere has been no shortage of people here who want to teach us. I\u2019ve discovered one of the perks of being at a community-based hospital is that during rotations, physicians get to know you and trust you and want to mentor you. It\u2019s been a great experience for me. I\u2019ve learned so much from everybody I\u2019ve worked with.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camburn matched to OB\/GYN at New York University, Long Island.<\/p>\n
Photo caption: Logan Hellinger (left), from Allison Park, PA, and Taj Singh (right), of Breinigsville, PA, react to learning that they both matched into medical residencies with St. Luke\u2019s University Health Network. Hellinger matched into the emergency medicine residency at Anderson Campus; Singh matched into the internal medicine residency at Bethlehem Campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n Below are the residency programs to which St. Luke\u2019s students matched:<\/p>\n Anesthesiology:<\/strong><\/p>\n Child Neurology:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dermatology:<\/strong><\/p>\n Emergency Medicine:<\/strong><\/p>\n Family Medicine:<\/strong><\/p>\n General Surgery:<\/strong><\/p>\n Internal Medicine:<\/strong><\/p>\n Obstetrics-Gynecology:<\/strong><\/p>\n Otolaryngology:<\/strong><\/p>\n Orthopedic Surgery:<\/strong><\/p>\n Pathology:<\/strong><\/p>\n Pediatrics:<\/strong><\/p>\n Psychiatry:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $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. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school campus. It also operates the nation\u2019s oldest School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 52 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 500 residents and fellows. In 2022, St. Luke\u2019s, a member of the Children\u2019s Hospital Association, established 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 five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction. St. Luke\u2019s is a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World\u2019s Best Hospital. The Network\u2019s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Fortune\/PINC AI 10 years in a row, including in\u00a02021 when it was identified as\u00a0THE #1 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.\u00a0In 2021, St. Luke\u2019s was also identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of SLUHN\u2019s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.<\/p>\n Information provided to TVL by: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Match Day is a national rite of passage for fourth-year medical school students moving on to residency programs. A complex algorithm matches the students\u2019 top choice of residencies with the … Continue reading The Envelopes, Please: Match Day for Graduating Medical Students<\/span> \n
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