Match Day 2025
In a celebration held in the Hudson Lounge at 50 Haven Ave., 136 medical students at VP&S opened the envelopes containing their match letters and learned where they will continue their medical training after graduation.
Among VP&S students, the most popular residency matches were internal medicine, pediatrics, neurology, psychiatry, and orthopedic surgery.
For Carly Mulinda, who matched in dermatology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, her choice of specialty was a personal one, motivated in part by her family experience.
“My younger sister has albinism, so dermatology has been something that has been an important thing in our family for as long as I can remember,” Mulinda said. “Throughout medical school, I got inspired learning about conditions like hair loss that disproportionately affect Black patients. Specializing in dermatology seemed like a really great way to serve the community that inspired me to get into medicine.”
The students who matched come from a wide variety of backgrounds and go on to even more varied careers in medicine, scientific and translational research, and other fields. Deirdre Ricaurte was drawn to her match in obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins University based on the opportunities it offers to hone her skills in different areas.
“I’m an MD/PhD student, and Johns Hopkins has incredible research, particularly in women’s health, which is an area that I’m really excited to explore,” Ricaurte said. “OB/GYN is an area where there’s so much opportunity to do more research and find out more, because there’s so much we don’t know. I’m also excited to jump into the next four years clinically—Hopkins is top notch in surgical training.”