Despite doubts and hurdles, why medicine is a calling for Penn Med student

by Rebekah D. Lucien

Published March 16, 2016, 9:26 a.m. ET

Editor's note: We're coming up on the third Friday in March, which, if you are one of thousands of American medical students, is a very big deal. It's Match Day, when these future doctors find out where they will be spending the next few years of their lives in the next phase of training, the residency. We asked Rebekah D. Lucien, a student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to write about the path she has taken to Match Day.