It’s one thing to think of a new medical school’s entering class as embarking on a future that will, hopefully, change their lives in a very positive manner. It’s another to extrapolate that reasoning to something much greater when one realizes that the entering class is not the only virginal body embarking on the path of medical education.

The University of Central Florida welcomed its charter class of College of Medicine students today with a community event that featured a surprise announcement, record-breaking achievements and promises for the future. [...] “Today we begin a long tradition of excellence, and we will set the bar high, [med school Dean Deborah] German said. “We were looking for students with that enterprising, pioneering spirit who wanted to [build] something as they went through medical school.”

Perhaps future graduates of the nation’s newest allopathic medical school will truly become pioneers of primary care, as they get ready to join a profession whose current turmoil could use the perspective of  students who apparently want to enter it for the noblest of reasons. | LINK

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