A Match Made in Boston- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
A Match Made in Boston- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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March 24, 2000
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A Match Made in Boston
On the front lines with Art Mombourquette
BWH announces $1 million gifts in Palm Beach
Finding Gene Expression Patterns in Disease
Who’s News
National Nutrition Month
New Leadership in Medical Residency Program
Pike Notes
The week of March 13 brought good news to BWH as well as to a handful of students graduating from medical school this spring. Of the more than 5000 applicants to residency training programs here, 162 matched with BWH as part of the country-wide match process, assigning students to teaching hospitals using a computer program that compares hospitals’ preferences with those of graduating medical students. BWH historically matches extremely well, and this year was no exception as some of the finest students in the country will be joining the hospital as interns in July. But this year’s match also marked the end of an era in education at BWH because it was Dr. Marshall Wolf’s last. Wolf has served as director of the BWH Medical Residency Programs for the last 28 years and is one of the country’s most well-respected medical educators. Although he will no longer direct the residency program, Wolf will continue to serve as vice chair of education in the department of Medicine, as well as professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “Under Marshall’s leadership, the program has grown to become the country’s most sought after. He leaves us with a pre-eminent program and a sense that he will be deeply missed,” said Victor Dzau, MD, chair, department of Medicine. The new program director, Joel Katz, MD, and the new residency co-director for Academic and Career Development, Bruce Levy, MD, joined Wolf in recruiting the 69 students who matched into Medicine’s programs this year. From Anesthesiology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Psychiatry, and Emergency Medicine to Obstetrics and Gynecology, Neurology, Surgery, and Radiology, some of the best and the brightest medical students will train here after graduation. "We are extremely pleased with the roster of outstanding candidates who matched in the department of Pathology,” said Frederick J. Schoen, MD, PhD, vice chairman, Pathology. “The continued success of our department in recruiting its top choices reinforces the extraordinary opportunities that our training program provides for physicians and physician-scientists desiring careers in academic pathology.” “I am absolutely thrilled to have been matched with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,” said fourth-year Harvard Medical Student Zsakeba Henderson. “It is going to be a great privilege to train under such a distinguished faculty and surrounded by such outstanding resident colleagues, and I am looking forward very much to starting.”