Teamwork Serves Local Farmworkers
07/29/2016A village of future healthcare leaders and their teachers cared for Central Florida’s neediest families July 26 and 28, helping almost 200 Apopka-area farmworkers with...
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Sponsor A White Coat, Welcome Newest M.D. Students
07/25/2016You can welcome a new Class of 2020 M.D. student to UCF by sponsoring his or her white coat. The new class – the eighth...
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Knights Helping Knights – Med Students Coach Football Team On Healthy Eats
07/22/2016UCF Knights linebacker Shaquem Griffin says recent improvements to his diet have helped him cut 5 percent of his body fat. Fellow linebacker Mark Rucker...
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High Schoolers Play Heart Surgeons For A Day
07/22/2016“I’m glad I’m wearing gloves, because this does not feel good!” says Amanda Nieves, while trying to locate the pulmonary valve in the pig’s heart...
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College of Medicine Students Host Free Asthma Screening August 6
07/11/2016A student-led initiative, Asthma Awareness Inspires Relief (AAIR), is volunteering to help community members “take back their air.” Second-year UCF medical students Sven Eriksson, Morgan...
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COM Students Shine At Florida Hospital Research Day
06/10/2016When Reem Abdalla (pictured above center) first enrolled in medical school, doing research was not on her list of priorities. But her recent experiences working...
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Dean’s Society Event Highlights FIRE Research
06/07/2016Can horses help medical students deal with stress and depression? That was one of four Focused Inquiry and Research Experience (FIRE) projects presented at the...
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Med Students Teach Kids How To Live With Florida Sun
06/06/2016Five College of Medicine seniors who hope to specialize in dermatology recently taught 180 fifth-graders at Moss Park Elementary School how to “Live With The...
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Medical Graduates Praise Strong Faculty Support
05/27/2016Each graduate had a different story – of challenges they faced, sleepless nights, or times they felt like giving up. But a shared sentiment among...
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“A Village” Celebrates New Doctors
05/20/2016Because it takes a village to create a physician, Class of 2016 students invited to Friday’s graduation two special “mothers” who saw them through early...
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He Taught Graduates How To Be Doctors
05/20/2016“SP Dave” came to Friday’s College of Medicine graduation for one simple reason: “These students, now doctors, are like family to me. I’ve watched them...
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UCF Graduates 94 New Physician Knights
05/20/2016 They cared for veterans, and underserved patients from Orlando to the Dominican Republic. One donated a piano to Nemours Children’s Hospital to give sick...
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