March Madness
WHAT: Just as basketball fans wait every year for the tradition, excitement and upsets of March Madness, medical students await the same with Match Day. Fourth-year medical students attending from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine will receive news they have worked four years to achieve.
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. Friday (March 16)
WHERE: McKenizie-Merket Alumni Center, 17th St. and University Ave.
EVENT: On Match Day, medical students across the country find out where they will serve their residencies for the next three to five years. The results are opened simultaneously at all of the nation’s medical schools.
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