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Match Day sees future MDs planning medical careers back home, and at Penn
A Penn Med student putting a pin in a map on Match Day 2025.

Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News

Match Day sees future MDs planning medical careers back home, and at Penn

Graduating students at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine gathered with friends and family for the annual Match Day celebration in the Atrium in the Jordan Medical Education Center; at noon, their opened envelopes revealed their next steps for residency.

Meredith Mann

Roy Hamilton encourages tough conversations with grace and compassion
Roy Hamilton.

Roy H. Hamilton, vice dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Roy Hamilton encourages tough conversations with grace and compassion

Hamilton, Penn Medicine’s new vice dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, is dedicating his third decade at the Perelman School of Medicine to making academia a safe, supportive space for students and colleagues alike.

Meredith Mann

Penn Medicine‘s Match Day 2023
Canada Montgomery (on left) and Natalia Rodriguez open letters at Match Day.

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Penn Medicine‘s Match Day 2023

Throngs of family and friends cheered on Perelman School of Medicine’s graduating students as they learned where they matched for residency.

Meredith Mann

A gateway from high school to Penn Medicine
Closeup of a stethoscope held up by a medical worker.

A gateway from high school to Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine’s Pathways Emerging Careers Program invites Philadelphia high school graduates to start a career with Penn Medicine with extra coaching, training, and mentoring.

Meredith Mann

An unexpected tale of friendship amid paired organ donation
(Left) Molly Gray and Dan Napoleon in hospital gowns at HUP; right: Molly Gray and Dan Napoleon standing on a soccer field sideline.

Molly Gray and Dan Napoleon both recovered from transplant surgery a few rooms apart at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, as part of a program called paired kidney donation. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

An unexpected tale of friendship amid paired organ donation

Molly Gray and Dan Napoleon are just two of a growing number donors and recipients who are increasing access to live organ transfers for minority community members.

Meredith Mann

A success story from Southern Africa
A group of doctors looking at an x-ray in a children’s hospital in Botswana.

(Homepage image) Medical trainees and members of the BUP team, including CHOP pediatrician Henry Welch (second from left), review a chest X-ray. (Image: Ryan Littman-Quinn)

A success story from Southern Africa

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership celebrates 20 years of medical, scholarly, and educational progress.