Fourth-year medical students at the College of Community Health Sciences learned March 16 through the National Resident Matching Program where they will spend the next stage of their graduate medical education.
The 26 students were among the thousands across the country who entered into the Main Residency Match and received residency placements.
The students, who spent their first two years of medical school at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, headquartered in Birmingham, completed their clinical years of education (third and fourth years of medical school) at the College, which also serves as a regional campus of the School of Medicine.
To date, a total of 911 School of Medicine students have completed their clinical training at the College.
In addition, 16 new residents matched March 16 into the University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency, which is operated by the College. The residency, a three-year program and one of the oldest and largest of its kind in the US, was able to fill all its positions through the national match process.
A total of 472 residents to date have graduated from the residency. Most practice in Alabama, in Health Professional Shortage Areas – one in seven family physicians practicing in Alabama graduated from the residency – while other graduates practice throughout the Southeast.
The College’s mission is to improve and promote the health of individuals and communities in Alabama and the region, and one of the ways it fulfills that mission is by addressing physician workforce needs with a focus on medical student and family medicine residency training.
Medical Student Match Results:
| Emily Bender | Family Medicine | Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado |
| Sarah Bode | Pediatrics | St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Jordan Busing | Pediatrics | Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee |
| Nicholas Cobb | Family Medicine | University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Kathryn Cox | Family Medicine | St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan |
| Mary Craig | Medicine-Preliminary
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
Brookwood Baptist Health, Birmingham, Alabama
UAB Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama |
| Laura Crocker | Pediatrics | UAB Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama |
| William Erwin | Thoracic Surgery | New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center |
| Asaf Gans | Anesthesiology | Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Whitney Hudman | Family Medicine | Cahaba Medical Care, Centreville, Alabama |
| Luke Iannuzzi | Family Medicine | University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Salmaan Kamal | Internal Medicine | UAB Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama |
| Koushik Kasanagottu | Internal Medicine | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Madeline Morgan | Pediatrics | UAB Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama |
| Bhavika Patel | Anesthesiology | UAB Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama |
| John Pickering Jr. | Surgery-General | University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Christopher Ray | Neurology | Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Rebecca Shuford | Surgery-General | Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Dwain Strickland | Family Medicine | John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas |
| Mary Sweeney | Transitional Year
Anesthesiology |
WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center, Marietta, Georgia
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia |
| Garrett Taylor | Surgery-General | Brookwood Baptist Health, Birmingham, Alabama |
| Elissa Tyson | Family Medicine | St. Vincent’s East, Birmingham, Alabama |
| Benjamin Walters | Otolaryngology | San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas |
| Brooke Watson | Pediatrics | Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Grace Williams | Pediatrics | Greenville Health System/University of South Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina |
| Keith Willis | Emergency Medicine | John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas |
Residency Match Results:
| Morgan Benefield | University of Arkansas |
| Nathan Boles | William Carey University |
| Ellen Cleland | University of Queensland |
| Carmen Collins | Medical College of Georgia at Augusta |
| Rameet Dhaliwai | Saba University |
| April Frater | University of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Josh Hamby | American University of the Caribbean |
| Vanessa Hamby | American University of the Caribbean |
| Andrea Haynes | Brown University |
| Fiona Hu | Saba University |
| Emily Keeton | Saba University |
| Stephanie Kinsley | University of North Texas at Fort Worth |
| Nichole Pritchard | St. George’s University |
| Nicholas Ruth | University of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Amrit Sidhu | Saba University |
| Melissa Smith | Saba University |