Fourteen Scholarly Excellence, Leadership Experiences, Collaborative Training medical students with the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine recently participated in Lehigh Valley Health Network’s annual Match Day celebration at The Renaissance Allentown Hotel.

The SELECT students joined fourth-year medical students across the country in opening sealed envelopes to reveal the name of their “match” – the medical residency assignment that will shape their future careers as physicians.

Others in the SELECT program participated in Match Day activities at USF in Tampa, Fla.

Megan Greenberg, of Salisbury Township, matched with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and will do her residency in internal medicine at Rutgers.

“LVHN is the first hospital I volunteered at when I was 16 years old, so to come back and study to be a doctor was rewarding. I would love to come back as an attending physician one day,” Greenberg said in a media release.

Greenberg is the daughter of Marna Greenberg, DO, the first woman to work as an emergency department physician at Lehigh Valley Hospital,Cedar Crest campus.

Marna Greenberg currently is vice chair of the department of emergency and hospital medicine at LVHN and research professor with USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.

Vivek Gorijala from Virginia matched with his first choice, LVHN, and will do his residency in psychiatry.

“I’m thrilled and so happy,” Gorijala says. “It’s a great program filled with great doctors that I’ve enjoyed learning from as a medical student and am looking forward to learning from as a resident.”

Match Day is a much-anticipated national event for graduating medical students.

The process goes as follows:

Fourth-year medical students apply to residency programs and attend personal interviews with prospective health organizations. After completing the interview phase, students submit a rank order list of their preferred training programs to the National Resident Matching Program.

Residency program directors also submit an ROL of their preferred students.

A database aggregates the lists to come up with residency assignments and the results are binding.

The USF/LVHN affiliation creating SELECT was announced in 2009.

LVHN serves as the northern instructional medical campus of USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.

Students attend USF Health Morsani College of Medicine Tampa campus for their first two years of medical school, then transition to LVHN for their last two years.