On
Sunday, June 4, 45 women and 85 men will be awarded Doctor of
Medicine degrees at the UCSD School of Medicine commencement
ceremony. Seven of the students will also receive doctorates
(Ph.D.).
The graduation ceremony, to begin at 11 a.m. on the West Lawn
of the UCSD School of Medicine in La Jolla, will be highlighted
by the commencement speech given by Francis Sellers Collins,
M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Human Genome Research
Institute. The speech is entitled, "The End of the Beginning."
The
range of specialties chosen by graduates is broad. Internal
medicine, pediatrics and family medicine are the top three specialty
choices respectively.
Seventy-four of the graduates will do their residencies in
California; 16 will be at UCSD.
