Syracuse, N.Y. -- Upstate funk gon' to give it to ya.
Don't believe me? Just watch the SUNY Upstate Medical University class of 2015 get down to their own version of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk."
John Charitable, center, performs in the "Upstate Funk" video.
In celebration of Match Day, members of SUNY Upstate put together a commemoratory parody video. Clad in white coats and sunglasses, the students set their textbooks aside and broke it down around campus.
Match Day is when fourth-year medical students learn where they will go for their hospital residencies. The Boston Globe reports the National Resident Matching Program uses an algorithm to place students with their ideal hospitals.
Geoffrey Young, senior director of student affairs and programs at the Association of American Medical Colleges, tells the Globe that Match Day is "the pinnacle next to graduation."
Throughout the video, SUNY Upstate student John Charitable, shown grooving with his stethoscope, is featured as the Bruno Mars figure. Charitable, who matched with New York University, also provided the vocals.
Charitable explains that the class officers initially expressed interest in making a parody video and then sent out an email to find participants. It was Charitable who the officers thought would best fit Mars' role.
"[The officers] approached me and said 'We are thinking of doing this video and you look like Bruno Mars. Can you sing?'" he said.
Charitable said coordinating production was challenging, as Match Day loomed over the students' heads.
"It came down to whoever could show up," he said.
In one of the final scenes of the video, almost the entire class is gathered in a lecture hall that Charitable said is where they spent most of their first year of medical school. Wearing glow sticks and dancing on the tables, the students let loose in an area once reserved for studies.
Despite busy schedules and anticipation over matches, Charitable said the video proved to worth their time.
"It was very much a team effort," Charitable said. "We were very successful in putting it together."