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Significant gift will help UF establish primary care education center

UF College of Medicine students, faculty and staff celebrated the news that Dr. H. James Free, a member of the College of Medicine’s first graduating class of 1960, and his wife, Carole, made the lead gift toward the construction of the 100,000-square-foot building, to be located next to the Health…

UF College of Medicine campuses receive ‘face lifts’

Major changes and upgrades are taking place at the UF College of Medicine in Gainesville and Jacksonville based on student and faculty input. In a recent announcement, David S. Guzick, M.D., Ph.D., UF senior vice president for health affairs and president of the UF&Shands Health System, named a number of…

Help students plan their spring break

This fall, UF College of Medicine students, many of them in their second year, are busy raising funds and awareness for six different international health outreach trips, held during spring break, March 3-10, 2012.

UF health leaders discuss big plans

Whether you are a visitor to the UF campus or a seasoned staff or faculty member, it is clear that the campus is growing. Just this year UF&Shands has hosted a number of groundbreakings, grand openings and around every corner one can find fresh drywall, evidence of this continuous expansion.

Medicine and motherhood

“I never wanted to do anything in life except be a doctor and a mother,” she told an auditorium of medical students during her Sept. 8 lecture at the UF College of Medicine. The talk was part of the monthly History of Medicine lecture series.

COM welcomes new PhD students

The Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences at UF College of Medicine hosted a reception to welcome 30 new doctorate students on Aug. 17.

The gift and lesson of listening

There is a meaningful tradition that happens every year during the new student orientation week at the UF College of Medicine. The Office of Development and Alumni Affairs presents a surprise gift made possible by an anonymous donor to all first-year medical students.

A week of firsts for new med students

The 136 members of the UF College of Medicine’s class of 2015 arrived at the Communicore Building Monday morning in their best suits, ready to begin the challenging—and rewarding—journey that is medical school.

Dr. Peter Small’s challenge to 2011 grads

“I ask each of you new physicians here to take on a really big problem, a deep inequity, and work to solve it. There is no shortage of such problems if we open our minds to them. It is my belief that a shrinking and flattening world makes…

Outfitting tomorrow’s physicians

The UF College of Medicine’s class of 2013 was joined by nearly 1,000 family, friends, faculty, alumni and staff as they marked the transition from basic science education to clinical training during the 14th Annual White Coat Ceremony on Sunday, May 15.