Match Day (Book Review)

Match Day by Brian Eule is a narrative account of three women as they approach that culmination of fourth year of medical school, match day. On match day, medical students across the country find out whether and where they are going to residency. To most, if not all, it's a stressful experience filled with uncertainty, second-guessing, and doubt. In this book, Brian Eule takes an almost anthropological approach in describing the entire process of specialty decision-making, residency interviews, and the ranking system. His only connection to medicine is his wife going through this process.

I picked this book up because the author describes his wife who went to Stanford undergrad and UCSF medical school. However, the target audience of the book is not third or fourth year medical students because we already know the nuts and bolts of the match process. Instead, I think those who would enjoy the book and learn the most would be significant others of medical students, pre-meds, or those early in medical school who don't fully understand this whole application process.

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