Celebrating Match Day: SEM Externship Alumni Find Their Residencies
Every year, it happens in an instant—at the same time, across the country—for thousands of medical students.
Envelopes are opened. Screens refresh. Names appear next to places that will shape the next chapter of a life. After years of relentless study, long nights on call, and quiet moments of doubt, Match Day delivers a single, irreversible answer: where you’re going next.
For the students of the SEM Externship, that moment carries something more. It reflects not only where they matched—but how they chose to practice medicine, who they hope to serve, and the values they carry forward.
This March, the Levitt Center is proud to celebrate several SEM Externship alumni whose Match Day results mark both an ending and a new beginning.
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Kwame McCain (SEM Externship, Summer 2022) Rutgers New Jersey Medical School → Emory School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Kwame McCain, who participated in the SEM Externship during the summer of 2022 while attending Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, has matched at Emory School of Medicine in Emergency Medicine. We congratulate Kwame on this exciting next step and look forward to seeing the impact he will make as a physician.
Lorenzo Santamaria (SEM Externship, Summer 2023) A.T. Still University of Osteopathic Medicine → Kaiser Psychiatry Residency, San Jose, CA
Lorenzo Santamaria, a student at A.T. Still University of Osteopathic Medicine, will begin a Psychiatry residency at Kaiser in San Jose, California. Lorenzo credits his SEM Externship experience as a turning point in his career trajectory. The research he conducted during his summer in the program sparked a deep interest in mental health, ultimately guiding him toward psychiatry. His story is a powerful example of how research experiences can shape the physicians we become.
Jessica Angel-Gonzalez (SEM Externship, Summer 2023) Medical College of Wisconsin → UC Davis Health, Internal Medicine Residency
