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UCF Pharmacy Robot Can Count and Label Prescriptions in 30 Seconds, Allowing Pharmacists to Focus on Patient Care

For just over a year, a UCF Health Student Health Services robot named “Pillbert,” has helped pharmacists quickly dispense common medications, enabling staff to better support doctors and further enrich interactions with patients.

UCF Epidemiologist Receives Field’s Highest Honor

As an associate professor of medicine at UCF, Prins works to improve infection prevention in nursing homes through her own studies and mentoring medical students researching infection prevention.

UCF Helps Develop AI Tool That May Assist Understaffed Hospitals

The open-source AI model analyzes medical images, generates detailed reports, answers clinical questions and integrates multimodal data to streamline diagnostics and improve accuracy.

Uniting Medicine, Engineering for Improved Patient Care

Utilizing partnerships across disciplines, officials from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and UCF are finding ways to better treat and diagnose diseases.

UCF Researchers Develop Unique ‘Barcodes’ for Molecules to Help Expedite Medical Advancements

UCF NanoScience Technology Center researchers developed an easier way to identify unique molecules by their chiral spectral fingerprints, which could help in creating pharmaceuticals or biomolecules.

2 Clinical Skills Staff Members Receive International Certification

This prestigious certification from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare acknowledges our College of Medicine staff’s dedication to advancing healthcare training through immersive, real-world experiences.

UCF Office of Research Awards 3 Faculty Fellowships to Accelerate Research Enterprise

The faculty will help strengthen university research initiatives starting Fall 2024 through Summer 2025.

UCF Researcher Studies Science Behind Limb Coordination to Help Stroke Patients

Qiushi Fu’s foundational research on bimanual coordination may help victims of stroke, limb loss or other conditions limiting limb usage improve their quality of life.

Therapy Dog Brings Smiles to Sick Children, Medical Students

Ion the 2-year-old boxer lies belly up as Palmer Vorkapich gives him rubs. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think the dog was smiling.…

UCF, Hospital Partnership To Add New Medical Residencies in Florida

More medical residency slots are coming to Florida thanks to a partnership announced today between one of the largest hospital networks in the country and…

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