New Medical Students Arrive For Orientation
08/07/2014An excited and eager new class of 120 medical students arrived at the UCF College of Medicine campus August 5 ready to soak in everything...
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News & Information Archive
Dr. Verduin Named Distinguished Psychiatry Fellow
08/07/2014Dr. Marcy Verduin, the College of Medicine’s associate dean for students and a newly promoted professor of psychiatry, has been named a Distinguished Fellow of...
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UCF Health Now Offering DEXA Scans To Detect Osteopenia, Osteoporosis
08/06/2014About 54 million Americans have osteopenia and osteoporosis, making them more susceptible to bone fractures and breaks. Symptoms of this “silent disease” don’t normally appear...
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Welcome Class of 2018
08/04/2014The UCF College of Medicine welcomed its sixth class of medical students – and its second class at full enrollment – Monday (August 4) at...
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Dr. Siddiqi Earns $1.27 Million NIH Grant
07/28/2014The National Institutes of Health has awarded assistant professor Dr. Shadab A. Siddiqi of the College of Medicine’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences a grant...
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Horsemanship Helps Improve Med Students’ Communications Skills
07/28/2014At first the medical students were apprehensive as they chose a horse to approach at the Heavenly Hoofs Therapeutic Equestrian School in Osceola County. The...
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Pipeline Students Explore Health Careers At Camp
07/28/2014Forget the pool or vacation. For more than 60 Orange and Osceola County high school students, there’s no place they’d rather spend summer break than...
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Medical Student Helps Create The Medical Student Press
07/28/2014A rising second-year UCF medical student has co-founded the Medical Student Press www.themspress.org, an online open-access medical student publishing group. Gabriel Glaun, a member of...
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Biomedical Student Gets RNA Training At University Of Vienna
07/24/2014Graduate student Philip Adams returns to the College of Medicine’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences fresh from two months working at the University of Vienna,...
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Dominican Republic Medical Mission Expands To Include Engineers And Chaplain
07/23/2014Bags of medicines clog the tiny office used to store, sort and pack hundreds of pounds of supplies bound for a medical mission trip to...
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Biomedical Students Apply Science To Diagnose Simulated Patient
07/22/2014Meet patient Isaac Morris who is complaining of shortness of breath and a fast pulse. College of Medicine assistant professor Dr. David Harris asks his...
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College Of Medicine Professor Weighs In On Polio Debate
07/17/2014This week, The Lancet continued the debate on polio eradication, complete with an editorial by Dr. Kimberly Thompson, the College of Medicine’s professor of preventative...
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