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Medical Student Elected to Lead National Student Group

Third-year Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) student Britani Martinez was recently elected  national president elect for the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). As national president, she will chair the AMSA Board of Trustees, the organization’s highest governing body. After her graduation in May 2014, she will take…


Making the Cut: Students Selected for Prestigious Prosection Program

Four students from the Farquhar College of Arts of Sciences have been selected to participate in the International Human Cadaver Prosection Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine—Northwest (IUSM-NW) in Gary, Indiana this Summer. Each year, donors bequeath their bodies to medical education and basic scientific and clinical research….


NSU-Com Charts the Progress of Project HOPE

In 2010, Nova Southeastern University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) received a five-year, $1.6 million predoctoral primary care training grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The resulting Project HOPE (Homelessness in Osteopathic Predoctoral Education) addresses the deficit in medical…


U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps Promotes NSU College of Pharmacy Alumnus to Commander

Christopher G. Lynch, Pharm.D., M.Ed., College of Pharmacy alumnus, class of 1997, was officially promoted to Commander by Rear Admiral, Bob Kiser, inaugural commandant for the Military’s Medical Education & Training Campus (METC), on Oct. 7 at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas.  Lynch’s promotion by the U.S. Navy to the rank…


Medical School Coordinates Second Annual Research Poster Competition

  Simultaneous to NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (NSU-COM) Residency Fair, which was held on Oct. 8, NSU-COM’s Consortium for Excellence in Medical Education (CEME) held its Second Annual Intern/Resident Scientific Research Poster Competition. Numerous individuals from the various CEME affiliates located throughout Florida and the southeastern United States submitted…


College of Osteopathic Medicine Earns High Marks in National Medical Education Ranking

NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM), was recently ranked in the national top 30 in producing primary care physicians, having a strong social mission, and producing quality physicians who work in health professional shortage areas. In a report titled “The Social Mission of Medical Education: Ranking the Schools,” published in…