As part of a special series, we’ll be taking a look at some of the recipients of the First Generation MD Award, a scholarship awarded to entering American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) students striving to be first-generation physicians within their immediate families.

When student David Kenneally was in his Microbiology class during third semester at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC), he and his peers were tasked with memorizing more than a hundred different microbes—plus other assorted important minutiae.

When he was a first-semester student at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC), Mohit Ajmeri remembers being asked medically related questions by members of his family—and feeling helpless because he didn’t yet have the knowledge to answer them.

This fall, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) offered the Healer’s Art medical humanism elective, a unique course taught at over 80 medical schools in the United States and around the world.  Students and faculty talked together about meaning and service, sharing loss,