March 16, 2018
On March 16, 2018, the National Resident Matching Program announced the results of the 2018 Main Residency Match. This year, UC San Diego's general surgery residency program had 1,027 applicants and interviewed 75 candidates. The Department of Surgery is thrilled to welcome our 2018 class of interns--in general surgery, plastic surgery, and otolaryngology--profiled below, and to begin another year educating the best and the brightest in academic surgery.
Victoria Bendersky
Duke University
Rachel Jensen
UC Davis
Jay Meisner
University of Illinois
Zongyang "Tom" Mou
Vanderbilt University
Rohini Patel
University of Arizona
Ashwyn Sharma
Johns Hopkins University
Michael Turner
Oregon Health & Science University
Raeda Taj
University of California, San Diego
Preliminary Intern
Kayva Crawford
Tufts University
Omid Moshtaghi
UC Irvine
Farhoud Faraji
St. Louis University
Paige McLean
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Riley Dean
McGovern Medical School–University of Texas Health Science Center