Tag Archives: Academic Health Sciences Center

Angela Requena is working on on global health, study abroad and interprofessional medical education initiatives as part of the residence. UCF’s College of Medicine and College of Nursing have welcomed their first Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence. Angela Requena, from Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas in Peru, will work on global health, study abroad and interprofessional medical education […]

With the structural framing complete, UCF and its community partners celebrated with a hard hat tour inside the new state-of-the-art facility in Lake Nona. On a bright sunny day, UCF and its community partners celebrated a major milestone in achieving a brighter, healthier future for Central Florida. More than 75 guests visited UCF’s Academic Health […]

The building will be equipped with cutting-edge training and technology to combat the nursing shortage. Leaders from Dr. Phillips Charities and UCF announced a $10 million donation to support the College of Nursing’s new building, which will help UCF graduate more nurses and combat the nation’s critical nursing shortage while fostering more innovation and collaboration […]

For the first time since the pandemic, the clinic has returned to in-person services at full capacity. Students from various health-related programs are once again teaming up to provide health screenings and resources to a population of underserved farmworkers in Apopka, Florida. By working together, students learn what it means to put the patient at […]

Eight interdisciplinary faculty research projects — on health topics including pain management, improving provider-patient communication, and intimate partner violence — have received about $300,000 in grant funding through a new partnership between the UCF Academic Health Sciences Center and the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation. The donation is the first major programmatic gift to the AHSC since it […]

The University of Central Florida’s Academic Health Sciences Center, which brings together the College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Health Professions and Sciences, and Student Health Services, has received a gift of $300,000 from the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation to fund innovative projects and programs to improve community health. The donation is the first […]

  UCF’s clinical leaders, including College of Nursing Dean Mary Lou Sole, gathered Monday to give the community a simple message: Get your flu shot. And then they rolled up their sleeves and were vaccinated at a new mobile flu shot golf cart that’s making the rounds on campus to protect even more people from […]

Sophomore nursing student Desiree dos Anjos, was cautious but sure-handed as she inserted a tracheal tube into her patient’s throat. She had read about the procedure in textbooks and watched it done numerous times on video, but this was her first hands-on experience. “Look how small the esophagus is,” she says, examining her patient’s neck. […]

The academic realignments of two new UCF colleges and an interdisciplinary school go into effect today. BY KRISTY MCALLISTER | JULY 2, 2018 CF launched two new colleges and a new interdisciplinary school today that will enhance opportunities for academic excellence in the new Academic Health Sciences Center in Lake Nona and the UCF Downtown campus in […]

By UCF College of Nursing College of Nursing Joins Interdisciplinary Center at Hub for Medical Innovation As part of its vision to reinvent 21st-century higher education, UCF is leveraging its strengths in healthcare to create an Academic Health Sciences Center on the 50-acre state-of-the-art UCF Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona Medical City in Orlando. […]