Saint-Hilaire Perpetuates The world of medicine thoroughly permeates the household of third-year Miller School student Reginald Saint-Hilaire. Obviously you can start with Saint-Hilaire, whose likeness can be seen smiling from giant UHealth posters scattered around campus, which led to good-natured ribbing from some of his classmates.
Saint-Hilaire’s father, Lemoine Saint-Hilaire, is a Broward County pharmacist, while family matriarch Marie J. Saint-Hilaire works as a registered nurse in Pompano Beach. Is it any surprise their son gravitated toward a health care career? “I’m currently doing a psychiatry rotation,” says With his third year of medical school winding down, Saint-Hilaire says he’s starting to feel pressure to pick a medical specialty. “I have varied interests, anywhere from something procedural or surgical, to something very general, like primary care,” he says. “I haven’t made up my mind ... the clock is ticking, though!” During his first year at the Miller School, Saint-Hilaire remembers how professors continually bandied about the term “lifelong learner” and how those words were an abstraction back then. But now, “I think I’ve come to understand what it means more to be a lifelong learner,” Saint-Hilaire relates. “Now I’m kind of getting a grasp of how quickly things change, and how on top of things you have to be. You have to constantly be reading and constantly refreshing your memory because it’s impossible to remember everything, all the time.” The recipient of a $10,000 Trustee Scholarship that’s renewed annually, Saint-Hilaire says the money has been helpful in defraying some of his medical school costs. Not only that, but the monetary assistance has been inspirational, too. “I know what kind of impact it’s had on me,” Saint-Hilaire says of his scholarship. “And when I get into a position to be able to help people to do the same thing, I definitely will. Because that’s what keeps it going.” |
