One Day, Two White Coat Ceremonies
07/26/2021A “sea of white coats” filled Addition Financial Arena Monday as two UCF medical school classes – more than 200 students — participated in a...
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News & Information Archive
Med Student Awarded Prestigious AMA Scholarship
07/16/2021Xamil Vega’s love of radiology began after his first anatomy class as a first-year med student at UCF when he became intrigued with the human...
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Burnett Student Receives Doctoral Fellowship For Minority Students
07/13/2021A young UCF scientist researching how pregnancy affects the immune system is the recipient of a highly competitive award designed to increasing the number of...
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Med Students Reveal Emotions, Challenges In Diary Of A Med Student
07/12/2021Medical students nationwide – including three from UCF – write about the trials and triumphs of training to be doctors during a pandemic in a...
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Med Student Receives National Award For Pandemic Efforts
07/09/2021A UCF medical student who used her bioengineering training to create makeshift ventilators for COVID-19 patients and help a free clinic transition to telehealth services...
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Medical Student Wins Pulse Legacy Scholarship
06/15/2021Nader Tabsh remembers exactly where he was the night of the Pulse mass shooting in Orlando. Eight months after moving to America from the United...
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“Medicine Has Never Needed You More.”
05/21/2021Nick Faraci still remembers a common question he received from his patients in a Pittsburgh spinal cord injury unit: “Do you think I’ll ever walk...
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A Surprise Graduation Gift to Remember
05/21/2021Tryphina Mikhail burst into tears of joy when she looked up into the stands of UCF’s Addition Financial Arena and saw an unexpected but familiar...
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Protecting, Defending and Healing
05/21/2021In the military, medical officers are promoted at the time they receive their M.D. diploma. On Friday, College of Medicine graduates Hannah Prock Gibbs, Avery...
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Class of 2021 Celebrates Together
05/20/2021On a sunlit green outside their medical school, Class of 2021 students gathered one last time – in person — Thursday to celebrate the day...
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Burnett Graduates Ready to Make An Impact
05/20/2021Growing up in the Philippines, Mara Mize saw firsthand how difficult it was for people living in poverty to access healthcare. This instilled in her...
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Med Student Wins Top Research Award at National Conference
05/13/2021When COVID-19 caused a shutdown of lab facilities last year, medical student Andrew Collins was forced to change the research project he was completing for...
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