Quinnipiac University Medical Students Match with Residencies

NORTH HAVEN, CT - Quinnipiac University medical student Richard Ferro was just a kid when his grandfather brought him close and told the family this boy would be a doctor someday.

For Ferdinand Joseph Ferro, it was the legacy of his own dream as a Spanish immigrant. He never got to wear a white coat and study medicine in America. But his grandson always carried that wish close to his heart.

On Friday, Ferro learned his medical education will continue with a family medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Once more, the Colorado native felt his grandfather bring him close.

“One of the last things that I said to him on the phone before he passed away was, ‘Guess what? Your grandson is going to be a doctor.’ That’s what I told him,” said Ferro, a fourth-year med student. “I think about that a lot. I carry that with me a lot.”

Ferro was among 99 students at Quinnipiac’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine who learned of their residency placements through the National Resident Matching Program. Members of the Class of 2021 were among the 48,700 medical students applying for 38,106 residencies — both all-time highs — in The Match, which uses a computer algorithm to produce a destination and a discipline for the next three or more years.

Overall, Netter students matched with residency programs across the country, including New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, University of Chicago Medical Center and University of Arizona College of Medicine, along with Connecticut affiliates Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/Stamford Hospital, and Trinity Health of New England St. Francis Hospital.

The Netter students matched in 18 different specialties and subspecialties, including emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, anesthesiology and urology. The residencies cover 21 states.

For Dr. Bruce Koeppen, founding dean of the Netter School, Match Day is framed by a proud standard of educating medical students who are well trained, compassionate and collaborative.

“It’s been quite the year with many, many challenges,” Koeppen told the Class of 2021, “but you rose to those challenges, and now, you’re ready to begin the next phase of your training.”

For the most up-to-date information about Match Day and Quinnipiac Netter, visit Match Day