Match Day 2011
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Image List:
Image 1: Marco Angulo chats with Dr. Brent Becker during one of Marco's shifts in the emergency department at UC Irvine Medical Center. Marco is a 41-year old graduating medical student who wants to stay at UC Irvine for his residency.
Image 2: Marco Angulo, medical student, instructs first-year students Marlon Madukdok, left, Ian Mannarino, center, and Andrew Bokarius, on ultrasound techniques.
Image 3: Marco Angulo conducts a tutoring session with, clockwise from left, second-year students Joanna Hernandez, Nancy Anaya, and Katia Sanchez.
Image 4: Preparing for a tutoring session with second-year medical students, Marco Angulo writes up a lesson plan. "Marco is an incredible inspiration to so many people," says fellow medical student Anna Fellman.
Image 5: Marco Angulo gathers up his lesson plan as his fiancee Anabel Arroyo, a post-baccalaureate pre-med student, prepares to leave the apartment. He met Anabel at East LA college.
Image 6: Whaling on his guitar, Marco Angulo gets into the music with his band "Romantic Torture." When he was in his early 20's, he wanted to be a professional musician.
Image 7: Only hours ago cradling the ultrasound machine, Marco's hands fly on the neck of his prized possession, his Ibanez guitar.
Image 8: When he's not making music, Marco Angulo spends much of his time in hospital quiet zones.
Image 9: Medical student Marco Angulo solicits advice from attending physicians as he works in the emergency department at UC Irvine Medical Center.
Image 10: Marco Angulo chats with ultrasound fellow Dr. Brent Becker during an emergency department shift at UC Irvine Medical Center.
Image 11: Family and friends applaud as Marco Angulo's name is called on Match Day and he heads for the podium to find out his fate for the next few years.
Image 12: Marco Angulo finds out he'll be entering his residency program at UC Irvine, his hoped-for outcome. "Honey, we're moving." he announced to his fiancee over the P.A. system. "To Santa Ana."
Image 13: Marco Angulo's father Manuel is overcome with emotion as he gives his son a congratulatory hug at Match Day 2011.
Image 14: Savoring his good fortune, Marco Angulo re-reads the confirmation of his hoped-for match in the family medicine program at UC Irvine Medical Center.
Image 15: Marco Angulo gives his fiancee, Anabel, one of famous bear hugs as he makes his way back to his family in the audience.
Image 16: Marco Angulo, celebrating with his family on the deck of the Medical Education Building, was one of 104 students participating in Match Day. "Marco has a natural talent with people--a gift--that I've never seen before," says PRIME-LC director Charles Vega.
Image 17: Although Match Day is special for all participants, this year it fell on Marco Angulo's birthday. He turned 41.
Image 18: Marco Angulo blows out the candles on his birthday cupcakes during a gathering after Match Day ceremonies.
Image 19: Marco Angulo will begin his residency in July. But first, he'll gig with his group at the Whisky-a-Go-Go on March 25.
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A ‘match’ made in medicine
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