Bill Riordan, left, a fourth-year medical student who emceed the event, holds the microphone for Jeff Schwartz, a fourth-year medical student from Louisville who found out he is going to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., for a residency in pediatrics.

LEXINGTON, KY (March 18, 1999) -- Like thousands of medical students across the country, University of Kentucky College of Medicine students found out today at a Match Day celebration where they will do their residency training. More graduating UK College of Medicine seniors are entering primary care specialties than last year. Of the 93 graduating College of Medicine students, 57 percent are entering primary care specialties, a 10 percent increase over last year. Twenty-nine of the students will do residences at UK. For the first time, participants in the National Resident Matching Program learned via the World Wide Web if they successfully matched to a residency training program. Participants also had the option of finding out their match via the Web.

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