Recent News from the Master’s Program
Special Master’s Program in Physiology offers a pathway for medical school admission
February 2019. UC News features the SMP with testimonials from former graduates. Read more
White Coat Ceremony welcomes Alumni from the UC Physiology SMP
August 2018. The UC College of Medicine welcomed the class of 2022 at the twenty-third annual White Coat Ceremony held at Cincinnati Music Hall in downtown Cincinnati. Ten students from the SMP Classes of 2017 and 2018 were accepted into this year’s medical school class at the University of Cincinnati. In total, over 20 graduates from the UC SMP began medical school in the fall of 2018 (see photo above). Read more
UC Physiology SMP Alumini Graduate from the UC College of Medicine
May 2018. Honors day for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine was held on Saturday, May 19, 2018 in downtown Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Among the 148 graduates receiving their M.D. degrees were ten alumni of the Special Master’s Program in Physiology. Graduates will be moving on to residencies across the country in specialties such as Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine. Jovo Vijanderan (SMP Class of 2014, pictured below) was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Read more

SMP Graduates Elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS)
The purpose of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) is to promote a culture of humanism in the practice of medicine by publicly recognizing students, residents and faculty whose clinical competence and professionalism include exceptional humanistic behavior and commitment to service.
Each spring, the UC College of Medicine’s chapter of GHHS recognizes those students who at the end of their third year have demonstrated exemplary attitudes and behaviors characteristic of the most humanistic physicians: integrity, excellence, compassion, altruism, respect, empathy, and service. Read about GHHS
We are proud to have the following SMP graduates among the GHHS Class of 2017:
Farah Dababhoy
Zuri Hemphill
Arjan Hura
Shama Milon
