Students Make Strides in Vaccination Research
In today’s world of diversity, cultural melding and vast range of socioeconomic conditions, it is crucial for physicians to be culturally competent, understanding and appreciative of human...
View ArticleProvidence Hospital Honored as a Top Teaching Hospital
Providence Hospital was again ranked as one of the nation’s top 15 major teaching hospitals by one of the country’s leading sources of health care information and research. The recognition from...
View ArticleQ&A with Dr. Cesar Labitan – Doctor Turned Author
Dr. Labitan, MD, ABFP, FAAFP, MBA, is a 1987 graduate of AUC and a former student government president. He is a physician, author, and value investor who prefers to be called “Bud” by his friends and...
View ArticleThe Traveling Doctor
It’s early morning and Jody Sadler, M.D. (’09), is zipping across major highways clocking a few hundred miles from Champaign, Illinois to Georgia. The Atlanta Braves are playing and Sadler, born in...
View ArticleA Soldier Faces a New Battle: Medical School
Luke Smith−Iraqi veteran, father, husband, medical student− is laughing uncontrollably. His two-year old daughter Lilly, has presented him with a hamburger bun. No meat, just a bun. “I have no idea...
View ArticleAUC Grad Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
John Lusins III, MD (‘06) has received an American Psychological Association (APA) Psychiatric Leadership Fellowship. The fellowship is a two-year award which offers psychiatric residents, with...
View ArticleAUC Grad and Wife Pen Book on Child Rearing
Ben Boswell M.D. (’10) and his wife Lisa Boswell, recently wrote their first book, Too Much Love, Too Much Discipline, a guide to help parents better understand the best techniques to raise children...
View ArticleEducating and Encouraging Youths of Sint Maarten
During a recent tutoring session with high school students from the St. Maarten Academy, American University of the Caribbean, Medical School (AUC) student Arash Yazdani encountered frustration from a...
View ArticleAlum Wins Neurosurgery Award for Work in Africa
Robert Louis, M.D. (‘07) is the 2011 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Young Neurosurgeons Public Service award recipient, for his role in helping to organize neurosurgical...
View ArticleTaking Notes: Students Published in Clinical Journal
While on rounds with the senior doctor during clinical rotations in Obstetrics & Gynecology in London at Ealing Hospital, AUC clinical students Ingrid Paredes and Marlon Pastrana were being taught...
View ArticleStudents Raise Funds for Victims of Japan Quake
As visuals of the March 9th earthquake in Japan splashed across their TV’s and computers, several AUC Student Government Association (SGA) members felt helpless and horrified. So they decided to pitch...
View ArticleA Taste of Home
Growing up in rural Georgia, Benji Ho’s family would often eat vegetables they grew in their garden and fish they raised in their lake. Dinner was always a place where good food met good conversation,...
View ArticleResearching Residency Programs On the Web
When medical students begin their search for a residency program, they factor region, prestige in field, comfort, and potential for learning into their decision to apply. While whittling down their...
View ArticleA Final Stop in SXM Before Beginning Life as a Surgeon
Although Heath Antoine has not yet begun his surgical residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, he is getting a head start on his new job by joining some of his peers on a humanitarian...
View ArticleRacing Into Medical School Harley Kelley
As a professional BMX racer, Harley Kelley got to see the world. He raced in Canada, Puerto Rico, Latvia, and France, just to name a few locations, and competed in three world championships – one as...
View ArticleAUC Students Assist with HIV Screenings
As part of an ongoing relationship with St. Maarten’s Aids Foundation, a group of fifth-semester AUC students recently assisted the organization with an HIV Screening in Philipsburg. “We wanted to...
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Spouses Organization Assists with Transition to Sint Maarten
It’s six in the morning, and Cheyenne McGlue is busy studying for one of her Emergency Management and Disaster Planning classes. She’s up early so she can finish some schoolwork before her two...
View Article2011 AUC Annual Faculty Symposium Recap
The recently held 2011 AUC Annual Faculty Symposium brought a sensibility of the practical application of what medical science students have learned so far and offered a greater understanding of the...
View ArticleAUC Breaks Ground on $30M Expansion of Campus
The American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) has graduated more than 4,500 physicians since its founding in 1978. The school marked a new chapter in its history on May 26, as...
View ArticleAUC Students Post 96 Percent USMLE Step 1 First-Time Pass Rate to Date in 2012
American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) today announced that AUC students have achieved a 96 percent first-time pass rate on Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Exam...
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