Boston, Mass. – On March 16, over 160 of Tufts medical students experienced a traditional rite of passage known as much for its excitement as its anxiety – Match Day. On this day every year, fourth year students around the country find out where they will do their medical residency internships.

   For many, it is the unfolding of the dreams they have long pursued. Such was the case for Sofia Mahari. Match Day brought her one step closer to fulfilling professional goals. Mahari plans to return to her native country of Eritrea, East Africa to practice medicine, a place where there are only 196 physicians for a population of 3.5 million. She hopes her residency will provide her with family practice experience crucial in East Africa.

   In a interview with the Boston Globe, Mahari said that she one-day hopes to “not only work with diseases, but with the social consequences of disease on the entire family.”

Online: http://www.tufts.edu/communications/printable/031700MatchDayAtTufts