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Student with child on Player Development Community Action Day
Student Life
On the road to earning their MD, these medical students are determined to make a difference in the Sint Maarten community.
Students cleaning up beach
Student Life
More than 240 students, staff, and family from AUC spent their Saturday volunteering across Sint Maarten.
Faculty headshots
Career Changers
While plenty of physicians have dreamed of being a doctor since childhood, many take a little longer to decide that medicine is their calling. Here, several AUC graduates reflect on their own unconventional paths to medical school and their career journeys since graduation.
Shannon Stegall wearing a santa hat
Career Changers
Alumna Shannon Stegall, MD '16 talks about what it's like to be a nontraditional medical student, the benefits of the Medical Education Readiness Program (MERP), and her experience completing clinical rotations in England.
Natacha Pierre
Career Changers
Natacha Pierre’s journey to become a physician has taken her around the world—from Europe to Africa, Asia to the Caribbean. It hasn’t been an easy journey by any means. But now, as a pediatrics resident who’s presented at symposiums, earned grants for her work in global health, and uses her diverse experience every day at the hospital, Dr. Pierre says it was worth every minute.
Dr. Rebecca Filbrandt headshot
Career Changers
Rebecca Filbrandt, MD ’17 matched at her No. 1 choice: Valley Children's Hospital in Madera, California.