{"id":108619,"date":"2024-03-04T10:27:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T16:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=108619"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T20:08:53","slug":"unmc-celebrates-its-house-officers-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/03\/04\/unmc-celebrates-its-house-officers-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC celebrates its house officers in February"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UNMC Office of Graduate Medical Education celebrated House Officer Appreciation Week Feb. 19-23 with activities and efforts designed to showcase the medical center\u2019s appreciation of its house officers\u2019 commitment to serious medicine and extraordinary care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a message sent to house officers and signed by UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, Nebraska Medicine CEO James Linder, MD, UNMC College of Medicine Dean Bradley Britigan, MD, and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education Chandra Are, MD, the house officers were told:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have attained the rare privilege of becoming a physician through your sheer grit and by embodying the high ideals of our noble profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are the bright future of our profession and represent some of the best we have to offer to our society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour hard work and dedication do not go unnoticed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Are added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHouse officers continue to be a vital cog in the wheel of the extraordinary care that we provide to our patients. As a frontline and mission-critical workforce, they help to run our clinical enterprise, and we cannot thank them enough for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GME office provided a series of activities for the house officers, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n