The residency process—everything down from applying, to interviewing, to ultimately matching—can be a daunting process for even the most self-assured medical school student.

“Whatever circumstances lead you to choose AUC, it is important to realize you have an opportunity in front of you.  AUC provided me with the opportunity to start fresh and make a new commitment to work and study harder than I ever had before in pursuit of a goal I was passionate about.”

AUC graduate Dhaval Desai (Class of 2008), now an instructor of hospital medicine, a healthcare network physician at Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital and a hospitalist at Children’s Healthcare in Georgia, wanted to pursue a career in medicine for as long as he can remember.

For Joseph Sadler, MD, a physician affiliated with Crockett Hospital in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., the decision to attend American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) opened up doors to multiple opportunities—and ultimately allowed him to pursue his dream of becoming a pediatrician.

Kate Essad, a resident in neurology at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, knew that AUC was the right school for her the first time she saw it.