Doctors to be

Students from the UF College of Medicine class of 2019 participate in new student orientation July 29.

It was a week of firsts for the University of Florida College of Medicine class of 2019. When the 135 physicians-in-training filed into the circular learning studio in the George T. Harrell, M.D., Medical Education Building for their first day of orientation July 28, they caught their first glimpse of the facility that would serve as their home for the next four years. “For years we’ve been dreaming about this facility,” said UF College of Medicine Dean Michael L. Good, M.D. “We have really what I believe is a national model for what a medical education building should look like.” As Good stood in the center of the room, surrounded by a sea of students at round tables, he discussed the college’s history of innovation, from the invention of Gatorade to the use of proton therapy. The orientation, which ran from July 28 to Aug. 6, included a special presentation by the UF Medical Alumni Association, where students received their first stethoscopes. — Styliana Resvanis