Medical Students Receive Residency “Marching Orders”

Fourteen future physicians from the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (NYITCOM) Class of 2025 have matched into U.S. military residencies.

After graduating from medical school, physicians in the United States must complete a residency training program, obtain a medical license, and become board-certified in a specialty. Medical students committed to military service complete their residency as members of the armed forces.

While most medical students participate in the “civilian” match, discovering their residency placements at National Match Day (taking place on March 21 this year), those going on to become military physicians typically receive their residency “marching orders” each December.

Military physicians serve in the medical corps of the U.S. Air Force, Army, or Navy, where they practice in a range of specialties, from psychiatry and urology to family medicine, anesthesiology, pediatrics, and others. These clinicians work in various settings, including hospital ships, military bases, and international medical centers, where they treat military personnel and their families. In addition, as commissioned military officers, they are called upon to provide care in high-pressure situations, including combat battles, disaster relief missions, and humanitarian efforts.

These admirable students will take the military oath of office at NYITCOM’s hooding ceremonies in May and complete their graduate medical education in conjunction with service to their country:

U.S. Air Force:

• Emmanual Adebogun, Psychiatry at Brooke Army Medical Center (San Antonio, Texas)
• Chloe Busse, Operational Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine (Tucson, Ariz.)
• Laurence Richard Graziano, Emergency Medicine at Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Margaret Rose O’Connell, Pediatrics at the Naval Medical Center-Portsmouth (Portsmouth, Va.)
• Edward Hughes Oser, Emergency Medicine at Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital
• Ian Snyder, Transitional Year at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Center (San Antonio, Texas)
• Claudia Vestal, Internal Medicine at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Center

U.S. Army:

• Hyemi Choi, Anesthesiology at Brooke Army Medical Center
• Hallie Henderson, Anesthesiology at Brooke Army Medical Center
• Marina Catherine Kim, Diagnostic Radiology at Tripler Army Medical Center (Honolulu, Hawaii)
• Nicholas Vincent Nasta, Transitional Year at Brooke Army Medical Center
• Breanna Thompson, OB/GYN at Womack Army Medical Center (Fort Liberty, N.C.)

U.S. Navy:

• Peter Dang, Family Medicine at Camp Lejeune (N.C.)
• Mahmoud Hamdy Khalil, Aerospace Medicine Operational Pilot Program at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute (Pensacola, Fla.)