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,

As many American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) students and graduates prepare for the upcoming 2016 residency MATCH® cycle, we thought you’d find the following list interesting.

We’re always excited when newspapers and media highlight our students’ accomplishments, and we were very pleased to see a nice story about Tiffany Strong—who recently earned a scholarship that fully funds her first-semester tuitio

As the daughter of a librarian, Cheryl Ann Kennedy’s childhood home was filled with stacks of books. One volume that she happened to pick up at age 10 was the biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female American physician.

When Class of 2012 graduate Farzad Amiri, MD was named Resident of the Month for August 2015 at Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine (MU) in West Virginia, he used one word to describe how he felt: “Humbled.”

As a third-year medical student at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC),  Tasha Chase has dedicated countless hours to the study and application of medicine—both in the medical school classroom and through service-learning opportunities in Sint Maarten, Honduras, and

Socially adventurous. Incredibly passionate. And, in her words, quite funny. That’s how American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) graduate Brittany Mott, M.D., would describe herself before today.