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For USF Medical Student, It's A Match Day Two Ways

Tribune photo by JIM REED

University of South Florida medical students Johnny Gibbs and Julie Contes became engaged on the same day Contes learned where she will do her medical residency.

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Published: March 19, 2009

TAMPA - Match Day, when graduating medical students find out where they will spend their residencies, always brings surprises and tears of joy.

University of South Florida students gathered today at Skipper's Smokehouse for the annual tradition. Each student takes a turn in front of the microphone, opening an envelope containing the name of the hospital at which he or she will begin training.

The occasion turned out to be especially intense for one USF student today: Her boyfriend slipped a marriage proposal into her envelope.

"Oh my God … 'Will you marry me?'" a beaming Julie Contes read, to the cheers and squeals of her classmates.

Her boyfriend, Johnny Gibbs, stepped up from the crowd with a ring, getting down on one knee.
Contes responded with an ecstatic yes, and then went on to open a second letter – the one saying she will do her residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

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