It's the morning of Match Day (and St. Patrick's Day!) and medical students across the country are on the edge of their seats waiting for 12 p.m. to finally come. In our latest blog post, Renee Betancourt shares her Match Day morning ruminations and her plan for the day.

In a new update to our Match Day blog, fourth-year medical student Renee Betancourt, hoping to match in Primary Care, shares her thoughts as she eagerly awaits her match results and a cross country move to continue her medical education.

In her first post to this blog (and on video), Penn fourth-year medical student Katie Baratz Dalke looks back on her path through medical school and shares her hopes for the future. At the stroke of noon on Thursday, March 17, Katie and 146 other University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine students will gather in an emotion-filled ceremony to open their “residency placement” envelopes and learn where they will spend the next few years receiving their advanced medical training.

HUP's Nursing Patient Safety Unit is a simulation set up to highlight common hospital safety issues and errors, sort of like the medical error version of the "What's Wrong?" pictures on the back of Highlights magazine for kids.

Medication safety is an important priority at Penn Medicine, and steps are taken throughout the hospital, from the pharmacy to the bedside, to make sure patients receive the proper medications.

Penn Medicine kicked off Patient Safety Awareness Week today, with a plethora of activities and training initiatives designed to get our staff members talking about and learning more about something that’s at the heart of our work here: Keeping patients safe while they’re in our hospitals.

The American Heart Association has released new guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. ask Penn’s own Mariell Jessup, MD, medical director of the Penn Medicine Heart and Vascular Center and an international expert on women’s heart health, to explain how these new guidelines will help fight CVD.