Latina Med Students Eager to Serve Spanish-Speaking Women
03/20/2023Iris Luceno’s eyes welled with tears as she saw her daughter Lisvet rip open her match envelope March 17 and accomplish her dream of becoming...
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Match Day 2023: “I’m Over The Moon”
03/17/2023Gabriel and Oriana Krivenko are newlyweds, but until exactly noon on Friday, the two UCF medical students had no idea if they would spend the...
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UCF-HCA Gain 211 Residents
03/17/2023On Match Day, UCF medical student Carla Gonzalez thought about her mentors and teachers who had guided her during two psychiatry rotations at HCA Florida...
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Match Day is Friday!
03/14/2023Thousands of fourth-year medical students across the country are preparing for one of the most important days in their academic and professional lives – Match...
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Making A Difference To Others
03/10/2023A week before they match into residencies, 26 College of Medicine seniors were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society Thursday, as a...
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Med Students Learn Food As Medicine
03/06/2023Eating healthy foods can prevent chronic diseases from diabetes to cancer, and UCF medical students are learning how to guide their patients to eat for...
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FIRE Conference Showcases Passion for Research
03/01/2023Growing up, Parag Vyas’ room was filled with toy space shuttles and astronaut posters. His mother worked on shuttles with NASA in Houston and so...
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From Resident to Program Director
02/28/2023An inaugural UCF resident – who served veterans as a chief resident and told colleagues his career goal is to cure diabetes – is the...
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MD Students Early Match into Urology, Ophthalmology
02/27/2023Four UCF medical students have early matched into highly competitive urology and ophthalmology residencies – programs that pick their applicants before National Match Day, this year...
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Giving Back – Med School Alum Starts Pediatric Mobile Clinic
02/06/2023On this Saturday morning, more than a dozen uninsured children are getting their health checks and vaccinations through a Nemours Children’s Health mobile clinic —...
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UCF Researcher Examines Link Between A Protein and Alzheimer’s
02/03/2023A UCF medical researcher is examining how the deficiency of a specific protein in the brain can cause Alzheimer’s disease – a discovery that would...
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UCF Postdoctoral Scholar Draws on Her Island Roots to Champion for Marginalized Populations
02/01/2023Working with her mentor, College of Medicine’s Population Health Chair Dr. Eric Schrimshaw, Makella Coudray is studying the sexual health disparities among marginalized and disadvantaged...
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