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Match Day is the day when the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) alerts graduate medical students to which residency programs they’ve been accepted into. Residency is required to practice medicine in the United States. It’s an emotional day for all medical students, but especially those who immigrated to study in
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Adebola trained as a medical doctor in Nigeria, but after a few years of clinical practice she decided to focus her career in public health. “In the course of practice I realized that a number of the diseases I was seeing in the pediatric department where I was working –
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Jawad, a nurse from Tunisia, describes his first three months in the U.S. as like walking in a dream; he could not believe he was here. The opportunities were beyond his expectations. “You could get a job like that,” he said, snapping his fingers. He worked in warehousing and then
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It was a love for practicing medicine that led Adriana to leave her home country of Venezuela in 2016 to start a new life in Miami, FL. After training for 10 years to be a physician and a recent fellowship in infectious disease, she was practicing medicine as a pediatrician