The University of Miami Hospital and Clinics welcomed all 174 third-year Miller School medical students for the 15th annual Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE), a medical school rite of passage. About 90 faculty members from the departments of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, pediatrics, OB/GYN, anesthesiology and family medicine served as faculty evaluators for the annual exercise that assesses the clinical skills of students.

The U.S. Department of Education has released new guidelines for collecting and reporting information on race and ethnicity. In recognition of demographic changes in the population, these guidelines allow individuals to select more than one race/ethnicity category to describe their background. The University wants to continue monitoring its progress toward recruiting and retaining a diverse student body, faculty and staff. The personal information you provide in MyUM will be used for federal reporting requirements, funding purposes and to compare our results with those of other institutions. This information will be kept confidential. It will not be used as a basis for any academic or employment decisions.

The next episode of Breakthrough Medicine, Stem Cell Therapy: Healing Force of the Future, will air this Friday, at 9:30 p.m. on channel 10 (ABC-WPLG). In the episode, experts from the University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute use adult stem cells to repair organs and save lives. A heart attack victim receives his own stem cells in hopes of repairing his damaged heart muscle, and after all other methods have failed, patients with chronic wounds turn to a revolutionary study that heals broken skin.

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis is a candidate for a $250,000 grant sponsored by the Pepsi Refresh Project. Cast your vote today and help The Miami Project fund its KiDZ Neuroscience Center. If awarded, the grant money will be used to expand the childhood unintentional injury prevention programs and educate more than 100,000 children and parents about injury prevention in the state of Florida.