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Graduation 2025

Our fourth-year medical students become physicians at the 2025 College of Medicine Graduation Ceremony on Friday, May 16.

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Match Day 2025

It was a great day as our seniors learned where they matched for their residencies.

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White Coat Ceremony

It was a great night as we welcomed the Freshman Class into the profession of medicine.

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The UAMS College of Medicine has educated and trained the vast majority of Arkansas’ physicians since 1879. Our goal is to produce doctors who are leaders dedicated to improving the health, health care and well-being of Arkansans and of others in the region, nation and the world.

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Top Docs

Health care rating concept. The hands show Five Stars against the backdrop of the night city.Congratulations to all of the fantastic College of Medicine physicians who were named on the 2024 Top Docs list by Little Rock Soirée. Over 140 of our faculty practicing at the UAMS Medical Center, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System are on Soiree’s list.

We are equally proud of our faculty who were named to the Castle Connolly Top Doctors in Arkansas list, which was published in the Arkansas Times in October. Kudos to all of these recognized faculty members for providing world-class care while teaching and training the next generation of physicians and scientists for Arkansas and beyond.

Also, congratulations to the UAMS Health Providers Voted AY’s 2024 Best Healthcare Professionals!

  • Soirée Top Doctors 2024
  • Castle Connolly Top Doctors in Arkansas
  • AY Magazine’s 2024 Best Healthcare Professionals

Latest News from the College of Medicine

Andrew Tran, M.D., is flanked by Joana Mack, M.D. and Feliciano "Pele" Yu Jr., M.D.

First Dual Fellow in Pediatrics Hematology / Oncology and Clinical Informatics Receives Top Honors, Job Offer

Andrew Tran was halfway through college in Austin, Texas, waffling between a future in biochemistry and astrophysics, when he got a job as a cashier in the gift shop at Dell Children’s Hospital. The cash register was a little difficult to operate, but the job was OK otherwise. Then one day, the hospital was short-staffed…

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Wei Chair press conference

Gifts from Walker Foundation, Jane Lyon Honor UAMS’ Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Create Distinguished Chair

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received gifts totaling more than $2.1 million to create the Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Geriatric Medicine, an endowed fund in the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. The Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation made a $1 million donation…

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Each student was assisted onstage by family, friends or members of the faculty as they received their doctoral hoods.

UAMS College of Medicine Graduates 168

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) conferred degrees on 168 graduates of the College of Medicine on May 16 during a ceremony at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock. The formal transition from fourth-year medical students to physicians began with Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, conferring medical degrees on students just…

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Robert “Lee” Archer, M.D., was the recipient of the 2025 Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Service Award from the UAMS College of Medicine.

UAMS College of Medicine Celebrates Faculty and Staff at 2025 Dean’s Honor Day

The College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) recently celebrated the achievements of faculty and staff at its annual Dean’s Honor Day ceremony, presenting awards for teaching, clinical care, research, administration, humanism and service. The college also recognized faculty members who are receiving promotion and/or tenure in 2025.

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