UK Medicine’s Bowling Green Campus Celebrates 1st Graduating Class
Pictured above: UK College of Medicine – Bowling Green Campus graduate Rachel Whittaker is hooded during the graduation ceremony. Photo courtesy of UK College of Medicine.
On May 14, members of the UK College of Medicine – Bowling Green Campus inaugural class celebrated the past four years of hard work as they officially graduated with their medical degrees and prepared to move on to the next phase of their lives: residency. They were joined by their fellow UK medical students from the Lexington campus and the Rural Physician Leadership Program in Morehead to receive their medical degrees at UK’s Singletary Center for the Arts.
As UK’s first four-year regional College of Medicine site, the Bowling Green Campus was developed to address a pressing need: more physicians, particularly in southcentral and Western Kentucky, to help improve access to health care for the Commonwealth. Through a partnership between UK, Med Center Health and WKU, the campus is able to take up to 30 new students each year.
This year’s graduating class comprises students who are going into emergency medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry and more. Many of these students will remain at UK, where they matched with UK HealthCare for their residencies.
Read more of the story by Allison Perry at UKNow.
