{"id":89250,"date":"2018-08-06T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=89250"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:36:54","slug":"good-doctor-begins-class-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/good-doctor-begins-class-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Good Doctor\u201d Begins for Class of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
Darin Griner came to UCF for his medical training after a Naval career where he kept U.S. nuclear submarines and their crews safe beneath the ocean.<\/p>\n
One hundred and twenty medical students received their white coats Monday in a tradition that welcomes them as colleagues in healthcare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Julia Nedimyer stayed at her alma mater for med school after working with her father to save coral reefs in the Caribbean and South America.<\/p>\n
Matthew Abrams, a Fulbright Scholar, came to the UCF College of Medicine<\/a> with dreams of becoming a psychiatrist who can help people like his mother, who died of alcoholism when Matthew was just 11.<\/p>\n
The three were among 120 students who received their white coats Monday in a tradition that welcomes them as colleagues in healthcare. As Dr. Deborah German, vice president for health affairs and dean, finished the 2018 White Coat Ceremony, the crowd of almost 700 gave the Class of 2022 a standing ovation. Standing and applauding in the Pegasus Ballroom\u2019s front row was UCF President Dale Whittaker, who opened the ceremony for the first time as the university\u2019s chief executive.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are now part of a College of Medicine that will be a model for 21st-century medical education,\u201d President Whittaker said, \u201cpioneering how to help people live better and teaching you to practice medicine not just for today but for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
He told the new M.D. students there had \u201cnever been a better time to join UCF and our College of Medicine,\u201d noting that this summer UCF created an Academic Health Sciences Center bringing together the university\u2019s health-related programs to create new opportunities for interdisciplinary education, research and patient care. Part of that reorganization, President Whittaker said, is a new College of Health Professions and Sciences<\/a> (CHPS) and the university\u2019s hope to expand the College of Nursing<\/a> in a new facility in Lake Nona adjacent to the medical school.<\/p>\n