{"id":101647,"date":"2019-08-06T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=101647"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:25:26","slug":"ucf-college-of-medicine-welcomes-new-class-of-aspiring-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-college-of-medicine-welcomes-new-class-of-aspiring-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF College of Medicine Welcomes New Class of Aspiring Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nuclear submarine officer, two college Division I football players and identical twins were among the 120 new UCF medical students who received their white coats Monday and pledged to become \u201cOne of the good doctors\u201d \u2014 a UCF tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The White Coat Ceremony recognizes new M.D. students as colleagues in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/healthcare\/\">healthcare<\/a>. The Class of 2023 is the 11th&nbsp;in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/college\/medicine\/\">UCF College of Medicine<\/a>\u2019s young history and includes graduates from Johns Hopkins, Duke, Notre Dame, Emory, Baylor, University of Florida, Stetson, UCF and University of Miami.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-video d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><noscript><iframe title=\"UCF College of Medicine White Coat Ceremony 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5R2cqlbyzLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><iframe title=\"UCF College of Medicine White Coat Ceremony 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5R2cqlbyzLA?feature=oembed\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before coming to medical school, Krisandra Hardy was a nuclear submarine officer determined to prove there was a military career path for women on submarines. She spent 14 months living underwater and developed operational plans for several top-secret missions. She said there were many reasons she chose UCF \u2014 \u201cits location in the ever-growing Medical City of Lake Nona, its integration of research into the curriculum, its stalwart results. But if I had to narrow it down, it\u2019s because on the day I interviewed, every single person I met was excited to be at the school, and that made me excited, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his welcoming remarks, UCF\u2019s Interim President Thad Seymour said the growth of Medical City \u2014 with a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-lake-nona-cancer-center\/\">UCF teaching hospital and cancer center<\/a> \u2014 means \u201cthere has never been a better time to join UCF and our College of Medicine.\u201d UCF Lake Nona Medical Center, a partnership between the university and HCA Healthcare, is set to open in 2020 next door to the medical school. Hospital CEO Wendy Brandon attended the White Coat Ceremony, beaming and nodding as Seymour mentioned educational opportunities students might have at the new facility.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to receiving their white coats, UCF\u2019s ceremony is also the students\u2019 first class in medical school led by Deborah German, vice president for medical affairs and founding dean. In front of their family, friends and university leaders, German asks students to imagine the person they love the most is seriously ill. What traits do they want the physician caring for their loved one to have? As students list traits, German writes them on a blackboard that is displayed all year in the medical school lobby. This year, students listed 46 traits, including \u201ccompassionate,\u201d \u201cknowledgeable,\u201d \u201cresilient,\u201d \u201chumble,\u201d \u201chonest,\u201d \u201cpatient\u201d and \u201cdetermined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is your contract with me, with your faculty, friends, family, community and each other,\u201d German said, pointing to the board as the first class concluded. \u201cWith the guidance of the faculty and your own hard work, you will become \u2018The Good Doctor.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seymour noted that UCF\u2019s medical school has gained national attention since it was established in 2006, noting that students rank in the top quartile nationally in every measure of student performance. This year\u2019s class was selected from a pool of 5,120 applicants, had an average MCAT score of 513 and a GPA of 3.79. The class has 61 women and 59 men, and 79 of the students conducted scientific research before entering medical school on topics including tuberculosis, breast cancer and designing future medical devices.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Broda is one of those young scientists. A bioengineering graduate from the University of Maryland, he became interested in UCF for medical school on the advice of a college mentor. \u201cHe said, &#8216;UCF is where innovation happens,&#8217; \u201d Broda said. His parents and younger brother traveled from Maryland to see him receive his white coat. And the medical student\u2019s father, Gerald, cried when he talked about his son\u2019s dreams. \u201cI only cry on happy occasions,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s my son moving forward in life. I cry when I think of all the people he will help in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyrel Garner comes to UCF\u2019s medical school after four years at the University of Montana, where he played varsity football as a cornerback. A broken leg at age 8 inspired him to enter medicine. \u201cThe doctor showed me pictures and talked through options. When he left, I turned to my mom and said, \u2018When I grow up, I want to do what he does,\u2019 \u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Garner interviewed at many medical schools. \u201cOut of all of them. UCF impressed me the most,\u201d he said. \u201cThe people were kind and caring. It seemed as though the admissions committee took the time to get to know me rather than treating me like a number. Because UCF is a newer school, I think it is primed to train up-and-coming physicians in the new world of medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 new UCF students received their white coats Monday as they embark on medical school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":101648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,12,17],"tags":[1238,17563],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-101647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-health","category-medicine","tag-deborah-german","tag-thad-seymour-jr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF College of Medicine Welcomes New Class of Aspiring Doctors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than 100 new UCF students received their white coats Monday as they embark on medical school.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-college-of-medicine-welcomes-new-class-of-aspiring-doctors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCF College of Medicine Welcomes New Class of Aspiring Doctors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than 100 new UCF students received their white coats Monday as they embark on medical school.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-college-of-medicine-welcomes-new-class-of-aspiring-doctors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-06T13:20:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-28T16:25:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2019\/08\/white-coat-2019.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jenna Lee\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jenna Lee\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-college-of-medicine-welcomes-new-class-of-aspiring-doctors\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-college-of-medicine-welcomes-new-class-of-aspiring-doctors\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jenna Lee\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bbcb2bbfa580f27936bd841c70479c63\"},\"headline\":\"UCF College of Medicine Welcomes New Class of Aspiring Doctors\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-06T13:20:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-28T16:25:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-college-of-medicine-welcomes-new-class-of-aspiring-doctors\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":753,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-college-of-medicine-welcomes-new-class-of-aspiring-doctors\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/white-coat-2019.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Deborah German\",\"Thad Seymour Jr.\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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