Five Burnett Students win Hispanic Heritage Scholarships
10/29/2020After Hurricane Maria ravaged her home country of Puerto Rico in 2017, Rocio Vazquez Beltran came to Florida in search of a better future and...
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Med Student Recognized Nationally for ECG Screening Research
10/26/2020Sudden cardiac death is the most common medical cause of death in athletes. About one in 40,000 children will have their hearts stop during exercise...
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Natural Killer Cell Therapy In Trials for Treating COVID-19
10/23/2020An immunity-boosting technology developed by the College of Medicine is being tested as a potential weapon in the fight against COVID-19. UCF cancer researcher...
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Lessons Learned: Keeping Medical Students From Zoom Fatigue
10/16/2020How do you make Zoom classes on biochemistry interesting? “You need a personality and an accent helps,” joked Professor of Medicine Dr. Stephen Lambert of...
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Support For Students Feeling Stressed During COVID-19
10/13/2020More than six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, students have a new normal as they face the rigors of medical school, and the College of...
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UCF Researcher Tackles ‘Chemo Brain’
10/08/2020Brain fog, difficulty concentrating and forgetfulness are common complaints among many cancer patients who have undergone chemotherapy. But while “chemo brain” affects about 75 percent...
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Population Health Sciences Adds 2 New Faculty
10/05/2020As the COVID-19 pandemic highlights health disparities and the need to better acknowledge the social determinants of health, the College of Medicine has added two...
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Med Student Wins Scholarship for LGBTQ+ Students in STEM
09/30/2020Matthew Abrams has dedicated his UCF medical school career to the LGBTQ+ community and his efforts were recently honored with two awards: a national scholarship...
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Dr. Castiglioni Wins Women of Distinction Award
09/28/2020College of Medicine faculty physician Dr. Analia Castiglioni is one of three women faculty honored by UCF President Alexander N. Cartwright on Wednesday with the...
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Message From UCF’s Clinical Leaders – Get Your Flu Shot Now
09/21/2020UCF’s clinical leaders gathered Monday to give the community a simple message: Get your flu shot. And then they rolled up their sleeves and were...
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Hispanic Physicians Tell Students, “Embrace Your Origins”
09/18/2020As the Hispanic population in the U.S. continues to grow — surpassing 60 million in 2019 — a recent workforce survey showed less than 6%...
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Importance of Getting a Flu Shot during COVID-19
09/11/2020With flu season on the horizon and COVID-19 still present in our society, it is critical to get your flu shot this year to help...
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