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GRATITUDE AND WELL WISHES Class of 2020, SPECIAL EDITION PRESIDENT J. Bradley Creed INTERIM DEAN James E. Powers, DO ASSOCIATE DEANS Michael Mahalik, PhD Terri Hamrick, PhD Eric Gish, DO Victoria Kaprielian, MD Robin King-Thiele, DO Robert Terreberry, PhD David Tolentino, DO CONTRIBUTORS Shelley Hobbs, Sarah Bowman, Bill Parish, Bennett Scarborough _________________________________ Founded in 1887, Campbell University is a private, coeducational institution where faith, learning and service excel. Campbell offers programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professions with undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees. The University is comprised of the College of Arts & Sciences, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, the School of Education, the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, the Divinity School, the Catherine W. Wood School of Nursing, the School of Engineering and the Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine. Campbell University was ranked among the Best Regional Universities in the South by U.S.. News & World Report in its America’s Best Colleges 2016 edition and named one of the “100 Best College Buys” in the nation by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc. EEO/AA/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Protected Veterans www.campbell.edu/employment
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Thank you for entrusting Campbell Medicine to provide you your medical education and training. Thank you for allowing us to guide and support you through the last four years. You are a very special class to me; I arrived in Fall 2015, and you are the very first class I saw move all the way through – interviews, White Coat Ceremony, a medical mission trip with some of you - so you are a very special class to me. I was looking forward to sharing graduation week and the ceremony with you and your families to celebrate your accomplishments and all you are going on to do, and while we did not get to share that special time in person, we hope the celebration video, book and gifts commemorate your accomplishment and convey how very proud of you we are. As I look back, you have made it through a very challenging four years. You have taken over one hundred exams and answered thousands of questions. You have done an amazing job in a difficult interview and match process under the single accreditation for the very first time, and you did an excellent job as we knew you would. I have no doubt in my mind you are extremely well trained and you will do an excellent job in residency and take incredible care of your patients. You have risen above a lot of challenges, achieved a lot of success, and you should be proud. You are entering medicine at an incredibly critical time and an incredibly challenging time. COVID-19 has forever changed the practice of medicine and all aspects of our lives. You are entering medicine at a time when there is substantial need from so many patients. We focus on those in rural and underserved regions, but there are patients everywhere who are in tremendous need of good physicians to take care of them. You have so many opportunities to touch so many lives right now.
