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Friday, March 15, 2013  Graduating students at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine learned where they will get their advanced years of training.

Monday, February 25, 2013  A medical student who survived a genocidal attack on a hospital in Burundi is bringing the story of his escape from the Hutu-Tutsi conflict to the University of South Carolina.

Friday, January 11, 2013  The University of South Carolina's School of Medicine is scheduled to host a special ceremony that bestows the famed white coats upon medical students.  University spokeswoman Megan Sexton says the so-called Pledge of Commitment ceremony is slated for Friday at the Koger Center in Columbia. .

Sunday, June 21, 2009  Ex-med student pleads not guilty in Boston to killing masseuse he met on Craigslist

Tuesday, April 21, 2009  Philip Markoff, 22, was due in court in Boston on Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of a New York woman at a luxury hotel in Boston April 14 and the kidnapping and armed robbery April 10 of a woman who was tied up at another hotel.