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Claire Bethel, MD ’22 shares her white coat story

August 19, 2022 04:37 PM By advance - Comment(s)
Claire Bethel, MD ’22 shares her white coat story

The first time I dreamed of my white coat I was six years old. I was dreaming of the day that I would become the first doctor in my family, dreaming of the day my hard work paid off, and dreaming of committing my life to serving others.

When I received my white coat and realized a sponsor was support...

USF Health BRIDGE Clinic students care for underserved communities in Tampa Bay

June 09, 2022 11:52 AM By advance - Comment(s)

Video by USF Health Communications and Marketing

The USF Health BRIDGE Clinic is a student-founded and student-run free clinic established in 2007 to serve uninsured adults in underserved communities. In 2021-2022, there were 711 patient visits, 6,170 total volunteer hours logged with 1,096 of t...

Stephen Vernon, MD '74, makes $100,000 gift to support student scholarships at Morsani College of Medicine

November 08, 2021 02:36 PM By advance - Comment(s)
Stephen Vernon, MD '74, makes $100,000 gift to support student scholarships at Morsani College of Medicine

Dear Fellow USF Medicine Alumni, 

Fifty years ago, my classmates and I took our first steps to becoming physicians at the USF College of Medicine. Being the inaugural class—huddling together on weekends in the anatomy lab and working late nights in the hospitals—are memories that ...

50 years of White Coats: Honoring Past and Inspiring Future Alumni 

September 24, 2021 12:51 PM By advance - Comment(s)
50 years of White Coats: Honoring Past and Inspiring Future Alumni 

On September 8, 1971, the first class of students began medical school at USF. Fifty years later, on September 2, 2021,  177 medical students of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine Class of 2025 celebrated their first right of passage at their White Coat Ceremony. 


We were ...

Join Doug Rodriguez MD '92 in welcoming the MD Class of 2025

July 09, 2021 09:46 AM By advance - Comment(s)
Join Doug Rodriguez MD '92 in welcoming the MD Class of 2025
The first year of medical school is exciting and scary. In some ways you feel like you’ve made it — a culmination of hard work, interviews, the end to worrying and waiting for admission — and on the other hand it is the beginning of even harder work. The realization that succeeding as a medical stud...
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