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Future FIU docs celebrate early residency matches
All HWCOM medical students who participated were successful in the early match.
February 24, 2021 at 2:00pm
For medical students, graduation is only the beginning of years of training. Next comes residency in their chosen field of specialty. Each year thousands apply to residency programs, but there are more applicants than residency slots. Hence, the process is very competitive and sometimes nerve-wracking.
Match Day, celebrated nationally in March, is when most medical students learn which residency program they have “matched” into. They’ll have to wait until March 19 to find out.
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By Brittany Torres Rivera
Every year, ambitious sophomores at FIU’s Honors College are given the distinctive opportunity of being considered for guaranteed admission at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM).
In addition to securing an acceptance of admission, the HWCOM Early Assurance Program assists students throughout their premedical planning by helping to define and broaden their academic interests and provide mentorship as the students explore and learn more about the medical profession.
This prestigious program has a less than 15 percent acceptance rate. This year, six students were selected for the fifth cohort. Among them are ER volunteers, members of various pre-health student organizations, research assistants and participants of physician shadowing programs.
February 16, 2021 at 1:30pm
More men than women are dying from COVID-19. Many studies suggest that hormones may give women the upper hand. But not all women seem equally protected. Why?
Two fourth-year medical students at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Chitra Gotluru and Allison Roach analyzed worldwide data looking for answers. Their findings are published in the March issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
They reviewed more than 100 studies and the Global Health 50/50 database, the world’s largest public source of sex-disaggregated data on COVID-19.
“We found that in countries that kept male/female data, men are dying from COVID-19 at double the rate of women,” said Gotluru, the study’s first author. “We also found that certain women had higher mortality (rate of dying).”
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1970s
Hope Jacobson 77, MS 85, EdD 98 was awarded the Bill Crutchfield Award For Outstanding and Distinguished Service from Special Olympics FL. She has been a volunteer with the organization since 1974 in a wide range of roles, including coaching athletes, teaching in the Athlete Leadership University (Academy), and fundraising and facilitating community-based programs. She also was a coordinator for Athlete Leadership Miami. Now retired from Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS), she is currently an adjunct professor in FIU’s College of Arts, Sciences and Education and works as a substitute teacher for MDCPS.
1990s
Carmen Cruz ’92, ’93 was named the first Latinx president of the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies. In February of 2020, Cruz also received a national multicultural award, the Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship from Columbia University, and was invited to do a keynote for the longest stand
Stempel professor among FIU physician-leaders tapped for Miami-Dade County mayor’s COVID-19 advisory panel
Dr. Mary Jo Trepka answers questions about the advisory group’s work and discusses how local citizens and members of the FIU community can best support their own and others’ health
December 18, 2020 at 4:45pm
Dr. Mary Jo Trepka is an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor and chair of the epidemiology department at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work. She was recently invited to participate in advising Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava on issues related to COVID-19 as South Florida, like much of the country, continues to grapple with a surge in cases. Also serving from FIU are Drs. Aileen Marty and Yolangel Suarez Hernandez, both from the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, and Dr. Robert Sackstein, its dean.