Match Day goes virtual, too, for med students

Tomorrow’s Match Day, when medical students discover which residency program picked them for further training. Students got emails this week telling them if they had matched, but not where. At noon ET, they won’t rip open envelopes in traditional medical school celebrations but open emails instead. Julia Probert, a fourth-year medical student at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, will read her news at home, where she self-quarantined after possible Covid-19 exposure while working in a New York hospital. Medical students have been pulled from their clinical rotations; her patients later tested negative. “Now I’m just not leaving my apartment, like everyone else in New York,” Probert said. She expects her residency in psychiatry will start in the summer as planned. “They need interns, right?”