CLEVELAND — Match Day is a monumental moment for medical students across the country.

Case Western Reserve University hosted its Match Day Friday morning at the Cleveland Clinic. One of the people who got matched was Nichola Bomani-Gonzalez, and she expressed that she would have never made it without her support system.

What You Need To Know

  • Nichola Bomani-Gonzalez was among nearly 200 students who got matched with a residency program on Match Day

  • She will be heading to Lehigh Valley in Allentown, Penn.

  • Match Day is when medical students find out which residency program they matched with to continue their journeys in the field

“It really does take a village. It takes an entire community, and me matching is not just a win for me and my family, but I think for the whole city, the whole community this is a really big win for me,” she said. 

She matched with a residency in Lehigh Valley in Allentown, Penn., and said this is something she has been looking forward to throughout the duration of medical school.

“It just feels so good, like you’ve been training for four years, you know, four years of college, so it’s been almost like a 10-year journey,” she said.

It's a journey that has led her to matching with an OB/GYN residency. 

“To know that you’re going to be doing your specialty delivering babies, helping women every day with their reproductive health, it is just so incredible,” she said.

She explained this has been an experience she will never forget, one that she could not have done without her classmates that are now her colleagues.

“Just to see how we came to this building on orientation day and four years later is just crazy, absolutely crazy,” she said.

There were nearly 200 Case Western Reserve University medical students matched on Friday morning. 

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