*RUSM has a first-time residency attainment rate of 96%, calculated as the percent of students attaining a 2025-26 residency position out of graduates or expected graduates in 2024-25 who were active applicants in the 2025 NRMP match or who attained a residency position outside the NRMP match. AUC’s first-time residency attainment rate for 2024-2025 graduates and expected graduates is 95%. SABA’s four-year residency placement rate of 97% is calculated as the percent of students attaining a residency position out of all graduates or expected graduates in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 who were active applicants in the NRMP match or attained a residency outside the NRMP match. As of July 17, 2025, they have not published their 2025 rates. SGU’s US residency placement rate of 94% pertains to graduates over five years from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 with the rate calculated as the total number of students/graduates who obtained a US residency divided by the total number of students/graduates who applied to a US residency program in a given year as of April 2025.
Riding the Storm: Dr. Sai Vedati’s Extraordinary Path in Medicine
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Dr. Vedati grew up in Baltimore, the child of computer engineers, and is the first physician in his family. "I've always been an extrovert," he says. "I didn't want a career behind the screen of a computer." He attended the University of Maryland, volunteered at Maryland-area hospitals and served as a resident assistant — experiences that confirmed medicine and helping people were his calling.
