Kate Essad, MD ’12, a sports neurology fellow in Brighton, Michigan, knew that AUC was the right school for her the first time she saw it.

It’s officially Match Week, the time when medical students around the country prepare to learn where they will be doing residency. The week culminates in Match Day on Friday, March 16 with the reveal of participants’ residency placement. For AUC students, the news comes in the form of an email at 1:00pm ET from the National Resident Matching Program. While the wait to Friday can feel agonizing, Match Day is one of the most anticipated and exciting day in students’ medical career.

We’re proud to recognize the students in our January 2018 class who received the Community Outreach Award for exceptional dedication to their communities, hospitals, or charities.

More than 100 students were recognized for outstanding academic achievement at AUC’s Celebration of Academic Excellence. The event, held once a semester, honors students who made Dean’s List and/or were inducted into the university’s Alpha Omega Phi Honor and Service Society during the previous semester.

This New Brunswick native headed back home to Canada to take on a gynecologic oncology fellowship at the University of Toronto.

AUC is proud to not only champion women in medicine but to also lead by example. Our executive dean, administration, and faculty include strong female role models who have mentored thousands of AUC students. In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2018, we recognize a handful of women who exemplify progress in the field of medicine.

Third year student and past-SGA president Brian Crosser recently presented research at the Big Sky Athletic Training Sports Medicine Conference in Montana. His work, which studied the impact of exercise on patients with post-concussive syndrome, was a collaborative effort with alumna Dr. Katie Essad (Class of ’12).

A bittersweet aspect of medical school is that close friends often become long distance after graduation, dispersing across the country for residency and fellowship. Not so for Drs. Hamid Ghanbari and Reema Hasan, two AUC grads who work just an office apart.

“The moment I saw her, with formaldehyde in the air, I knew she was the one,” says Dr. Tabaac, who will begin a vascular neurology fellowship at Johns Hopkins this summer.

AUC has launched three new scholarship programs to recognize incoming students with superior academic achievement.