On campus experiences are not sufficient to prepare fully competent health care professionals; it is absolutely critical that all students have the opportunity to learn alongside providers in the community. Click here to learn more.

On October 17^th at the Harlan Center in Harlan, Kentucky, Southeast Kentucky AHEC, which serves Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, Perry, Pike, and Wolfe counties, co-sponsored our 2013 Health Careers Expo, along with Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital. 

• The University of Kentucky has developed several research strengths, particularly in therapeutic areas that have high prevalence in Kentucky.  These strengths include research into cancer, substance abuse, neurological diseases and cardiovascular sciences.
• University of Kentucky is part of an elite group of medical centers across the country who have earned the "trifecta" of national federal funding.

UK is one of a few medical schools to offer a tuition guarantee program. This guarantees each entering class a set tuition that will remain constant for the four years they are enrolled in medical school.

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The undergraduate curriculum for the College of Medicine promotes excellence in the foundational scientific and clinical principles supporting the delivery of compassionate, cutting-edge, preventive and therapeutic clinical care. The College prides itself on continually reviewing its curriculum with revisions and additions that represent best practices in modern medicine, correlated with principles of professionalism and cultural competence. The curriculum provides the knowledge base, attitudes and skills necessary for students to become outstanding physicians in the 21st century.

Researchers at UK have discovered a new cellular mechanism that may better explain what causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.  ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that involves the death of motor neurons, leading to the muscle weakness and atrophy.