Medical students were matched with faculty to practice their interviewing skills.
Students news at the College of Medicine
Mock interviews designed to prepare fourth-year med students
By Priscilla Santos • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: StudentsA voice for kids
By April Frawley Birdwell • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Students, Top StoriesUF pediatric residents focus on advocacy.
Blue Room undergoes renovations
By Christine Velasquez • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: StudentsThe study hall for Health Science Center students reopens after improvements made over the summer.
Lifestyles of the cash-strapped and not-yet-famous medical students.
By Christine Velasquez • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Students, Top StoriesThe Southern Scholarship Foundation dedicates one of its nine scholarship houses in Gainesville to female medical students, providing rent-free housing to nine qualifying students. Living in the Rogers Rotary House helps alleviate some of the students’ financial burdens.
Summer days lead to research projects for first-year students
By Priscilla Santos • Aug 17th, 2009 • Category: Neurology, StudentsRather than traveling and relaxing during their last free summer in medical school, some College of Medicine students embarked on research projects instead. Second-year medical student Mohammad Qureshi is one of them.
Qureshi became fascinated with neurology during the neuroanatomy course he took his first year. That fascination led him to pursue a service project in [...]
Speaker of House Visits the HSC
By Christine Velasquez • Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story, Staff, StudentsFlorida House of Representatives Speaker, Larry Cretul, met HSC college deans and researchers during a recent visit to the center.
Physician Assistant Program receives ’school’ status
By Christine Velasquez • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Department, Lead Story, StudentsUF once again helps set the pace for physician assistant programs across the nation by elevating the College of Medicine’s program to school status just one week before graduation.
New lecture, award in honor of Hugh A. Walters, M.D.
By Jennifer Brindise • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Students, SurgeryThe department of surgery’s upcoming distinguished speaker lecture was established in honor of the young surgeon who died last year and will feature the recipient of the first humanitarian award named after him.
The road to commencement: Ilicia Shugarman fights cancer at home and in the hospital
By Christine Velasquez • May 27th, 2009 • Category: StudentsIlicia Shugarman’s path to graduation was tougher than most medical students. Along the way, she had to face her mother’s diagnosis with leukemia.
A rite of passage: Third-year medical students don their white coats
By Christine Velasquez • May 19th, 2009 • Category: Students, Top Stories, VideoUF medical students entering their third year took part in the annual White Coat Ceremony, a 12-year-old tradition that celebrates their transition from the classroom to the clinical setting.






