Honors Alumna ‘Match Day’ ceremony featured on UIC Today
Via UIC Today:
On March 21st, UIC medical students waited to learn which residency programs they had been accepted to, including Honors College Alumna Ashwini Deshpande, at the UIC’s Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum.
Match Day is a coordinated event in which students nationwide are notified at the same time of their placements in residency programs, where they will receive three to seven years of specialty training.
Ashwini Deshpande, of Vernon Hills, knew from a young age that she wanted to be a doctor. While her heart was initially set on becoming a cardiologist, she turned her focus to internal medicine.
She said UIC was the ideal place to train and learn.
“It’s great to be in the middle of the city,” she said. “There are lots of diverse neighborhoods nearby, and that’s helped me have a nice life outside of school.”
Ashwini matched at Stanford University in Stanford, California — her second choice — but is excited to work and live on the West Coast.
“This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, to actually have jobs as doctors,” she said. “I’m super excited. I’ve never lived in California, so we’ll see how that goes. But I’m over the moon.”