38% of medical students graduating from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine this year will remain in Nevada for their residencies.

Meanwhile, 30% of medical students graduating from Toro University in Nevada will also stay in the state for their residency program assignments.

Maria Silva joins us now.

And Maria, all of these students learned about their residency locations on March 17th, a day known as Match.

Day, an exciting day.

And on that day, not just students here in Nevada, but medical students across the entire country, precisely at 9 a.m. they have these envelopes with them.

They open those up, and that's revealing where they'll be doing their residency, some of them doing three up to six, eight years, some of them now that Toro University, Nevada.

Another exciting thing about that is that all of their students 100% matched and they had the 100% rate, which is sometimes not unheard of for some schools.

So all of the students were able to match 162 medical students, to be exact, even more exciting.

Out of those, 162 students, 50 will complete their residency in state here in Nevada.

Now, I caught up with two medical students, one staying in Nevada and one heading out of state.

Now.

Both shared what match day means and what's in store for the soon to be doctors.

We were both up in the morning.

We couldn't sleep.

We were just like, Oh my gosh, where are we going to go?

The most, I think, surreal moment ever.

And Mulder, Aldin and Fabio Hussein, two of the 162 medical students from Touro University, Nevada's College of Osteopathic Medicine, who gathered in a ballroom at Green Valley Ranch for Match Day 2023.

We got our envelopes maybe like 20 minutes before we opened them, and we just had to sit there and it's like minutes before I felt like I couldn't even breathe.

What's inside these envelopes?

Life changing for the students of Nevada's largest medical school.

How the medical students are paired with their residency programs involves a Nobel Prize winning algorithm.

I'll let Dr. Wolfgang Gilliard, Dean and chief academic officer, explain.

The graduating senior ranks, the programs that they would like to go to in a ranking from 1 to 1526, whichever number they would like to do then the various programs.

This means the residency when, say, Student X applied there and they say, Oh, student X was fantastic.

We make her number one.

Then this gets into the computer and they say this at 16 here, this is five.

The computer analyzes it all and then ultimately says they chose this is number one, okay, They can end up here as number one.

Amal, one of the 50 students who will remain in state to help with the growing demand for quality health care providers in Nevada.

I matched at Sunrise Health here in Las Vegas, but I'm actually going to be training at Southern Hills Hospital.

It's like a branch of sunrise for psychiatry, so I will be there for the next four years.

The other 112 medical students will be entering residencies in 28 other states with 40 students going to California.

I'm going to Kaiser Oakland for Pediatrics.

I was very excited.

The hope is to one day have more graduating medical students stay in Nevada.

Now, what I like to do is that out of our graduates of about 170 580, about 100 stay in this state.

That's my dream, because in ten years we have about a thousand students who would then become physicians and hopefully stay because the data show if you do medical school and your residency in the area, you will stay 75% in that area.

A small does plan to stay in Nevada once she completes her residency.

We desperately need health care providers, especially mental health care providers.

I felt like I really enjoyed my time here and I would like to contribute to that further in my journey.

As for Phoebe has Journey, she hasn't completely ruled out returning to Nevada.

I did enjoy all my pediatric rotations here and I would love to come back.

Doctor Gilliard Advice for these graduating medical students comes from experience.

Yes, and from the heart.

Know why you are doing this and that.

In the end it is worth it.

You are doing this for support of the common good for society.

And even though when things look really dark and difficult, you have a mission and those values should drive you because in the end it is really in the beautiful ways we can change the world.

And in medicine you can really do that.

And the faculty and staff at Rho so proud of their students.

Check this out.

They took out a full page ad in The Sun newspaper to congratulate their medical students who, by the way, they graduate officially Amber in May.

So congratulations to all of these students.

It's so great to see the video.

They're all smiling, so excited, and to share that with their families.

It means a.

Lot to their families from the video.

Right.

And so much hard work they've put in.

So the majority of these students, what kind of residencies are they going to be doing?

Well, many of them actually, out of the 160 to 90 or about 55% are going actually into primary care.

And that includes family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics as well.