University of Pennsylvania students are inspired to be urologists to be closer to becoming a doctor on game day in 2025

Residence programs are where medical students gain hands-on experience in graduate students. This is a very competitive process.

“We officially welcome you to the 2025 Days competition,” said Dr. Dacarla Albright, associate dean of student affairs and health at Perelman Medical College.

Medical students at the University of Pennsylvania have graduated and found that they will participate in the residency program on Friday.

“My experience here was amazing,” said Sydney Chambule, a Pennsylvania medical student.

Chambule received a full scholarship to come to Pennsylvania from Mozambique, and he said the medical system was lacking.

“I hope to be a great surgeon and find ways to make a global health plan that will also help my community get home,” he said.

After his father died of prostate cancer, he was inspired to become a urologist.

“I saw that what he was going through was not unique to him, it was something that happened to a lot of men in Mozambique and I found that urology care required a lot of work,” Chambule said.

The big reveal happened. Chambule and other students anxiously possessed sealed residence envelopes.

“I have witnessed your compassion, your dedication and the deep empathy that defines you as a doctor,” said Susan Rose, Ph.D., Senior Vice Dean of Medical Education, Perelman Medical School.

Chambule will remain in Penn as a medical resident. It's a long way from home and is now closer to his dream of becoming a doctor. Chambule is 37 of his medical school classmates who will remain in the Pennsylvania system.

“After so many years of work and dedication, I've been away from my family for ten years and finally made this moment the climax of all those years… I was ecstatic.” “It's perfect. I really want to stay here and I'm glad I did.”