Four students seeking their master's degrees and five students doctoral programs competed last week in an event designed to prepare them for presenting research.
The "Three Minute Thesis" event, hosted by the UK Graduate School and the Graduate Student Congress, is a research communication initiative requiring graduate students to speak succinctly and engagingly about their current research to a nonspecialist audience.
It provides students with the opportunity to practice presenting their work, and to receive feedback from a panel of judges.
Charles Griffith, III, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, was recently named Councilor Director of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society. Dr. Griffith will serve on the AOA Board of Directors for the 2014-15 year.
Charles Griffith, III, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, was recently named Councilor Director of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society. Dr. Griffith will serve on the AOA Board of Directors for the 2014-15 year.
Dr. H. David Wilson receives the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges from Dr. Darrell Kirch,, President & CEO of the AAMC, at its Annual Meeting in Chicago, November, 2014.
A pediatrician with fellowship training in infectious diseases, Dr. H.David Wilson was previously Dean and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences as well as Vice President for Health Affairs.
Before graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, fourth year medical students participate in a simulated-based internship "prep week" that includes training on adult and pediatric patient scenarios with high tech patient simulators.
This experience incorporating clinical simulation is just one example of the vital and growing use of simulators in providing individual as well as team training in a safe clinical environment without compromising patient safety, said Dr.
Mary Vore was recently awarded the 2014 William R. Willard Award. This award is the College’s highest honor given to individuals who have made singular contributions to the College’s missions in research, teaching and service.
Educated at Asbury College, Mary obtained her Ph.D. in pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. She returned to Kentucky as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and rose through the ranks to Professor in 1986.
In 2014, UK medical students matched into 22 different specialties for residency. Twenty-one percent elected to stay within the UK HealthCare system, and an additional nine percent elected to stay in Kentucky for residency.
On Oct. 17, the Lexington Convention Center teemed with more than 200 students and scientists sharing their latest research on cardiovascular health for the 17th annual Gill Heart Institute Cardiovascular Research Day.
Nigel Mackman, Ph.D., director of the McAllister Heart Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented "Hematosis, Thrombosis and Immunity," demonstrating the diverse roles of hemostasis and thrombosis in cardiovascular diseases, cancers and infections. Kathryn J.
A group of University of Kentucky medical students who call themselves the "Sonokittens" have distinguished themselves as the world's savviest student sonographers with a win at the first-ever World Cup of Ultrasound Competition.
The UK College of Medicine students who share a special interest in bedside ultrasound competed in the ultimate skills test at the World Congress of Ultrasound in Medical Education, Oct. 10-12 in Portland, Oregon.
After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University, landing a graduate research position at Georgia Tech, and designing jet engine acoustics as a consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA, Ben Havrilesko decided to plot a new career course.
Wearing light blue scrubs and toting medical science texts across campus, the first-year medical student is today immersed in the mechanics of the human body. When asked about life before medical school, Havrilesko clarifies some misconceptions about his former role as an aeronautical engineer
Academic Convocation and Awards Day was held on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, in the UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion H Auditorium. Academic Convocation is an annual presentation of awards to students and faculty for outstanding achievement in academics, service, research and teaching during the previous year. The Edwin Munich Memorial Lecture presented by Dr. David J. Moliterno, Jack M. Gill Professor and Chairman of Internal Medicine and Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs, was titled “The Crucial Role of Medical Education in the Evolution of Contemporary Healthcare.”
Recently, the University of Kentucky family lost an exceptional physician, pioneer and transformational leader for our institution and medical enterprise. Peter Bosomworth, M.D., was 84 when he died Saturday morning, leaving an indelible mark on the University and our mission of quality education, research, health care and service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Dr. Bosomworth was part of the tradition of leadership and quality care that has defined the UK medical center for more than 40 years.
There is a phone call Point of Care Ultrasound Director and Assistant Emergency Medicine Program Director Dr. Matthew Dawson will never forget.
While he was a medical resident in Utah, his father Stewart Dawson, then the chaplain for theLexington Fire Department, called to ask him about a bispectral index monitor – more commonly called a BIS monitor.
The UK College of Medicine has launched a new systems-based curriculum that integrates basic science and clinical concepts early in medical school through interactive instructional methods. Want to know what our medical students are saying about these new curricular enhancements? Watch this brief video.
The University of Kentucky Center for Health Services Research (CHSR), which serves as a connector, catalyst and creator at UK and UK HealthCare, announces the launch of its new website and seeks membership applicants for its efforts in applying research to optimize health care delivery. The CHSR is focused on creating, testing, and scaling next-generation health services research solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health delivery within Kentucky and beyond.
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in collaboration with the colleges of pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, health sciences and communications, is preparing to host the annual free community health fair which provides services to underrepresented and uninsured residents in Lexington and the surrounding area.
This year's event has been set for 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 7, at the BioPharm Building (College of Pharmacy), located at 789 South Limestone St. on UK's campus.
"Jumpstart Your Health" is this year's theme for the community health fair.
When University of Kentucky medical student Callie Dowdy tells fellow students she delivered four babies in one month during her obstetrics rotation in Western Kentucky, she emphasizes that fact that she was a primary care provider.
She didn’t stand in the back or the room or watch over the shoulder — she was the first person to hold the babies.
Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society, has elected Dr. Charles “Chipper” H. Griffith III, senior associate dean for medical education at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, as a councilor director on the Society's board. Griffith's three-year term begins at the AOA board of directors meeting in Portland, Maine, on Oct. 3.
Alpha Omega Alpha is a professional medical organization that recognizes and advocates for excellence in scholarship and the highest ideals in the profession of medicine.
Prior to medical school, members of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Class of 2018 were chemists, Americorp volunteers, engineers, waiters, musicians, class leaders and archeologists. But the moment they were coated at the Singletary Center of the Arts on Aug. 1, the 136 students were all dedicated to becoming doctors.
Members of a diverse and highly accomplished incoming class of medical students were presented with their white coat, a universal symbol of compassion and humanism in medicine, during the White Coat Ceremony. Dr. Frederick C.
Ashtin Nix, a fourth-year medical student, was recently named the recipient of the Charles G. and Edith J. Dickerson Scholarship. Ashtin was selected from among students nominated from each of the six UK health profession colleges based on demonstrated academic excellence, financial need, and practice interest in an underserved area in Kentucky. Ashtin is a part of the College of Medicine Rural Physician Leadership Program. For this honor, she will receive a $5,000 award.
