Match Day Brings Celebration as Medical Students Glimpse Their Futures
March 15, 2024
Along with thousands of peers across the United States, Rutgers medical school students open envelopes to learn where they will complete their residencies
Esther Jang had often thought about becoming a doctor, but her passion for healing grew after she survived a deadly plane crash.
Then 14 or 15, Jang was with her parents and two younger siblings on an Asiana Airlines flight from South Korea when it crash-landed on a San Francisco runway. Three passengers were killed in the 2013 crash of the Boeing 777, and Jang’s parents were seriously injured.
At a nearby hospital, Jang found solace in the medical team, whose members answered her questions and offered support. Later, at a facility in her home state of Colorado, she was invited to shadow her mother’s surgeons, who were providing treatment for spinal compression fractures and knee injuries.