It was the evening before the highly anticipated Match Day when a roomful of UF College of Medicine faculty, staff, students and guests gathered to celebrate another occasion. The UF Beta Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, a professional medical organization, inducted 23 students, three residents and two…
Standing on stage, Dr. Patrick Duff lobbed a ball to UF softball player Stacey Stevens. It was a ceremonial first pitch to kick off Match Day — held at the J. Wayne Reitz Union and viewed around the world as family and friends tuned in to celebrate the UF College…
As blood gushed out of a friend’s foot, 6-year-old Lauren Van Eldik stood close by to examine it while other kids ran away from the bloody scene. What scared away most kids fascinated and intrigued her. Those reactions as a child have not changed to this day. Van Eldik, a…
Many years ago, Michael L. Good, M.D., dean of the UF College of Medicine, taught his residents how to respond when the wrong type of gas flows from an anesthesia machine into a patient’s lungs during preparation for surgery. Though the occurrence is rare, Good felt it was important for…
Today’s medical students may prefer texting instead of face-to-face conversations and interactive group learning compared to traditional lectures. But they still share the timeless qualities of past generations of physicians, such as compassion and a strong dedication to medicine, said Anthony Yachnis, M.D., a professor at the UF College…
“Now that our first-year students have established a routine, we have their families come and see a day in the life of a medical student,” said Patrick Duff, M.D., associate dean for student affairs and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UF College of Medicine. “It’s also a…
Fourth-year UF College of Medicine student Candace Glenn knew she wanted to be a doctor before visiting northern Uganda and southern Sudan in 2007. But her experiences in Africa over the past four years opened her eyes to the specialty she wanted to pursue — dermatology.
More than 10 years ago, friends and family of a UF College of Medicine student came together to create a scholarship fund in her memory. Caroline Annette Cody, a member of the UF College of Medicine class of 2003, was tragically killed during her first year of medical school.
Keya Locke has a busy schedule as a fourth-year student at the UF College of Medicine. But she makes time to help her children with their homework and coach her daughter’s volleyball team. Even though Locke describes her experience in medical school as “an emotional roller coaster,” she makes juggling…
For Gainesville family practitioner Daniel Rubin, M.D., his preceptorship during his first year of medical school at UF cemented his desire to pursue a career in primary care. He spent two weeks shadowing an internal medicine doctor in a small town in the Florida Panhandle and liked the connections the…
