Med Pupil in Shock as She Matches 1,441 Miles Away from Her Fiancé (Unique)

• Meghana Chapalamadugu tells PEOPLE completely in regards to the day she discovered she matched together with her dream OBGYN residency program at Orlando Well being.
• The information resulted in blended feelings given her current engagement to Gaurav Gupta, who’s at the moment ending the primary yr of his surgical residency on the College of Nebraska.
• Chapalamadugu opens up about their continued long-distance relationship and the way they plan to make it work after marrying in Might this yr.

A single envelope held the destiny of Meghana Chapalamadugu’s future as a medical scholar who hoped to match together with her dream OBGYN residency program. Upon cracking its seal, the information left her in shock.

It is an thrilling time for Chapalamadugu, a 26-year-old Florida native who’s learning on the College of Miami Miller College of Drugs and approaching a number of life milestones. They’re each skilled and private, which amped up her Match Day feelings tenfold.

Chapalamadugu is engaged to Gaurav Gupta, her fiancé who’s ending the primary yr of his surgical residency on the College of Nebraska upon matching with this system after graduating medical faculty in 2024. They’re getting married in Might this yr.

On March 21, Chapalamadugu opened her envelope together with her fiancé by her aspect, she discovered she matched in OBGYN at Orlando Well being. Whereas it is her dream program, it additionally brings her 1,441 miles away from Gupta as they proceed their long-distance relationship within the years forward.

“To search out out that I matched was unbelievable. Such a weight lifted off my shoulders,” Chapalamadugu tells PEOPLE completely upon studying of the massive information. “After which to seek out out that I matched at such an incredible program was like one other, ‘Oh my gosh, I can not consider that is occurring.'”

Naturally, there have been blended feelings for Chapalamadugu upon realizing her dream match would additionally imply bodily separation from her associate whereas they’re each head down on their respective residency applications.

Acknowledging it “sucks” not attending to reside collectively instantly after they get married in Might, since their applications in numerous states could have commenced, the med scholar takes consolation in realizing that they “aren’t the primary” to face this impediment.

“We definitely will not be the final,” she provides.

Sustaining a long-distance relationship is not new for the couple who’s been doing it since Gupta began his residency program final yr. They’ve a system down, together with weekend visits and “high quality time” spent on FaceTime.

“Doing issues which can be extra intentional, having a present or doing a digital dinner date moderately than simply being in your cellphone and scrolling has been actually useful all through this yr,” she explains. “So I believe we’ll positively proceed to try this.

Chapalamadugu and Gupta each attended the College of Miami for medical faculty and undergrad, the place they met in 2018. They bonded over a failed natural chemistry class that they retook collectively, a “joke,” she says, wanting again.

“We met after which began speaking after which began courting, and that is our getting-together scenario,” she explains.

Chapalamadugu was assured that she wished to go to medical faculty and pursue a profession in medication, however she did not know what particularly. “I really thought that I might hate OBGYN, however I went on my rotation on the College of Miami and I ended up falling in love,” she says.

“The flexibility to empower ladies, inform them and equip them with all of the data that they should make the most effective choice for themselves was one thing that was actually particular to me,” Chapalamadugu says of OBGYN.

“I actually simply loved having the ability to assist ladies get pregnant, assist ladies not get pregnant, assist ladies keep pregnant, assist ladies not keep pregnant. There’s such a dichotomy,” she continues. “And I actually simply fell in love with additionally the affected person inhabitants. They’re the sweetest.”

The med scholar provides, “It was only a actually particular area and I at all times simply really feel like there’s at all times a little bit little bit of magic.”

She and Gupta, who have no direct members of the family within the medication area, have one another to lean on for assist and relatability as they navigate their continued research and profession journey.

“He is actually probably the most supportive particular person ever. Genuinely, he is the most effective,” she says of her fiancé. “I might by no means dream of quitting and shifting to be with him… he can be mad at me if I did that as a result of he really is somebody that unselfishly desires the most effective for me.”

She provides, “And I believe it is actually uncommon to seek out — however as soon as you discover it, you are locked in for all times.”

Chapalamadugu says it is “so comforting” to have a relationship that she is aware of is “actually rock-solid,” particularly as she begins this subsequent chapter. “That is my dream profession, dream program, dream training,” she tells PEOPLE, wanting forward.

“I’m tremendous fortunate and I am in a relationship that I do know will stand the check of time. We’ll be advantageous, after all, it’s going to not be the perfect relationship scenario, however we’ll make it work,” she says with confidence.

Regardless of the short-term distance of their respective medical applications, Chapalamadugu and Gupta might be sure of this: They’re one another’s match for all times.