6 Exemplary COM Students Awarded 2022 Order of Pegasus
04/06/2022Six College of Medicine students are among the 26 university-wide selected as 2021-22 recipients of the Order of Pegasus, UCF’s most prestigious student award for...
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News & Information Archive
UCF/HCA Gain Historic Numbers of Residents
03/18/2022A record number of medical students – 200 – matched into UCF/HCA Healthcare residencies Friday as the graduate medical education (GME) partnership, one of the...
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Match Day Highlights Students’ Service to Others
03/18/2022As UCF medical students, they devoted themselves to the forgotten — farmworkers, the homeless, the uninsured. And at Friday’s National Match Day, as they learned...
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FIRE Research Conference Returns In-Person, Highlights Population Health
03/02/2022As a Division I water polo athlete, Yasmine Ghattas spent much of her time coaching basketball and softball to children with intellectual disabilities. Now a...
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UCF Medical Student Says Doctors Must Be Healers and Community Leaders
02/22/2022Lake Lindo grew up minutes from the UCF College of Medicine campus where he now studies, inspired by his physician mother who provides psychiatric care...
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Interprofessional Faculty Earn $1.5 Million Grant To Build Healthcare Provider Resiliency
02/15/2022As COVID-19 challenges the resilience of healthcare providers worldwide, an interprofessional team of UCF health faculty recently received a $1.5 million federal grant to help...
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Global Health Conference Highlights Need For Healthcare Advocacy
01/24/2022As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to highlight racial disparities in healthcare, physicians and other providers play a key role in helping patients overcome barriers to...
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Awards Ceremony 2021 Honors Excellence
11/18/2021The College of Medicine recognized faculty, staff, students and community members for their achievements and contributions during the annual Awards Ceremony Nov. 16. The virtual...
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Med Student, Community Say Thank You To First Responders
11/03/2021When medical student Brittany Perry told leaders of UCF’s new hospital she wanted to provide treats for first-responders treating COVID-19 patients, they thought she might...
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Stories of Courage and Resilience
11/03/2021A transgender resident and a medical student who chose homelessness to save money for her education shared their stories of courage and challenging societal stigmas...
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“Seeing Her Heart Beating On The Monitor, I Knew We Had Done The Right Thing”
10/27/2021A UCF medical student, who helped lead his college’s first responder unit as an undergraduate, helped perform lifesaving CPR at a Lake Nona restaurant where...
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When Medicine is a Family Affair
07/27/2021Manuel Carrazana teared up as he watched his identical twin daughters collect their white coats, marking their journey to become physicians — a career he...
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