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Students news at the College of Medicine

Mock interviews designed to prepare fourth-year med students

By Priscilla Santos • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: Students

Medical students were matched with faculty to practice their interviewing skills.

A voice for kids

By April Frawley Birdwell • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Students, Top Stories

UF pediatric residents focus on advocacy.

Blue Room undergoes renovations

By Christine Velasquez • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Students

The 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 Stories

The 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, Students

Rather 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, Students

Florida 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, Students

UF 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, Surgery

The 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: Students

Ilicia 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, Video

UF 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.