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College of Medicine to honor outstanding graduates Thursday, AAMC president to speak Friday |
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Jim Winkler |
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May 30, 2007 |
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Members of the 2007 UT College of Medicine graduating class will be honored at the Graduation Awards Ceremony that will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 31, in Nitschke Hall Auditorium on Main Campus.
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In addition, Dr. Darrell G. Kirch, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, will give a talk titled “What Would Flexner Think?” Friday, June 1, at 10:30 a.m. in Health Education Building Room 110 on the Health Science Campus.
The title refers to Abraham Flexner, author of a 1910 report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that led to numerous reforms in medical education in the United States and Canada. A continental breakfast will be served at 10 a.m. in the lobby, and people planning to attend should make reservations with Shirley Joseph at shirley.joseph@utoledo.edu.
Graduates of the MD, MD/PhD in biomedical sciences and master of science in the biomedical sciences degree programs and graduate certificate programs in pathology, contemporary gerontological practice, bioinformatics and proteomics/genomics will be recognized.
The college’s two most prestigious academic awards, the Glidden L. Brooks Award and the Dean’s Award, will be presented. The Brooks Award, named in honor of the first president of the former Medical College of Ohio, is presented annually to the student who is distinguishable by superiority in all phases of the curriculum, while the Dean’s Award is presented to a graduating student who, in the eyes of fellow students and the College of Medicine dean, shows the greatest promise as a practitioner of medicine.
More than 25 awards will be given to students for outstanding academic performance by College of Medicine academic departments. Six basic science and clinical sciences professors will be presented Robert T. Tidrick Golden Apple teaching awards, and awards will be given to resident physicians and student services administrators.
The program was moved to Nitschke Hall because it has a seating capacity for 1,000 people and can accommodate a larger crowd than the Eleanor N. Dana Conference Center Lucas Auditorium on the Health Science Campus, which has a seating capacity of 400. People planning to attend should make reservations by calling Office of Student Affairs, 383.6428, or sending an e-mail to kathy.kaczmarek@utoledo.edu.
The College of Medicine commencement will be at 2:30 p.m., Friday, June 1, in Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. There are 184 candidates for doctor of medicine degrees, combined MD/PhD degrees, doctor of philosophy and master’s degrees in biomedical sciences, and graduate certificates in pathology, contemporary gerontological practice, bioinformatics and proteomics/genomics.
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