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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...

Medical student inspired to pay it forward through White Coat Campaign 

November 13, 2020 12:18 PM By advance - Comment(s)

Claire Bethel (center) and her sisters at the MD White Coat Ceremony in 2018


It’s rare that current medical students are also donors to the annual White Coat Campaign, which sponsors the incoming class’s first White Coats and establishes their class scholarship fund. The culture of philanth...

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