Health & Medicine News

The building will be equipped with cutting-edge training and technology  to combat the nursing shortage.

UCF Associate Professor Varadraj Gurupurr created an algorithm that can predict and measure the incompleteness of electronic health records —  from your lab results to disease diagnoses.

Every UCF medical student receives training in specialties including surgery, internal medicine, neurology and psychiatry at the Orlando VA Medical Center.

Thanks to a generous donation, a new program at UCF pairs theatre studies, creative drama and nursing students to provide interactive theatrical programming for patients at Nemours Children’s Health.

Darin Edwards ’97 ’10MS ’11PhD, who led the team that developed Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, received the College of Medicine’s third Dr. John C. and Martha Hitt Grand Rounds, an honor that celebrates increasing excellence in patient care.

With the new fellowship, the UCF-HCA graduate medical education consortium has 34 accredited residencies and fellowships across Florida training almost 520 doctors, making it one of the fastest growing GME programs in the state.

UCF is now part of an organization of 170 academic institutions and organizations worldwide that are committed to addressing global health challenges.

Through two U.S. Department of Education grants, UCF will increase opportunities to support Hispanic/Latino/a/x student success across the university, with an intentional project dedicated to the nursing profession. Para la versión en Español, oprima aquí.

The Progresando Initiative empowers Hispanic/Latina/o/x adults to achieve economic and social mobility through high-impact careers. Para la versión en Español, oprima aquí.