Florida State University College of Medicine
| College of Medicine | |
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| Established | 2000 |
| Type | Public |
| Dean | Dr. John P. Fogarty |
| Location | Tallahassee, Florida, USA |
| Website | Official website |
The Florida State University College of Medicine, created in 2000 to produce “compassionate physicians for the 21st century,” is the first new medical school of the century to be reaccredited.[1] Mission: The Florida State University College of Medicine will educate and develop exemplary physicians who practice patient-centered health care, discover and advance knowledge, and are responsive to community needs, especially through service to elder, rural, minority, and underserved populations.[2]
Location: The main campus is in Tallahassee, Fla. Regional campuses are in Daytona Beach, Fort Pierce, Orlando, Pensacola and Sarasota as well as Tallahassee.[3]
Community-based: The regional campuses are where students spend Years 3 and 4 of medical school. There also are rural training sites in Marianna and Immokalee, Fla., in addition to Thomasville, Ga.[4] Rather than learning in an academic medical center, students learn one-on-one from community physicians in their offices, clinics and other outpatient settings as well as in hospitals. The college partners with more than 90 health-care organizations statewide and with more than 1,700 physicians to provide clinical training to students.[5]
Accreditation: The college was reaccredited in 2011 for the maximum eight years by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. [6] Also in 2011, it was reaccredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. That means it can continue to be a sponsoring institution for residency programs.[7]
Residency programs: The medical school sponsors two residency programs at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola – in pediatrics and in obstetrics-gynecology. It also is working on an internal medicine residency program with Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and a family medicine residency program with Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers.[8]
Academic degrees: The College of Medicine offers the M.D.; the Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences; and the Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences, Bridge to Clinical Medicine Major.[9]
Academic departments: The five departments are Biomedical Sciences; Clinical Sciences; Family Medicine & Rural Health; Geriatrics; and Medical Humanities & Social Sciences.[10]
Research: The FSU College of Medicine has a dynamic research agenda in biomedical science, geriatrics, rural health and patient safety, among other areas. Researchers in the college’s interdisciplinary Department of Biomedical Sciences focus on the human genome across the spectrum of the medical sciences. Aging and neuroscience are among the topics of special emphasis in the college’s research program. As a Carnegie I Research Institution, the university provides a rich research environment. In addition to collaborating with basic science and psychology faculty from FSU’s College of Arts & Sciences, medical school researchers share resources and expertise with the School of Computational Science & Information Technology, the Pepper Institute on Aging & Public Policy, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.[11]
Translational Science Laboratory: Medical scientists are focused now on translating two decades of biomedical research into cures for human disease. The Translational Science Laboratory, created in 2011, provides the physical space, the applied technologies and the staff to serve medical scientists at Florida State and elsewhere in their search for targets for treatment of disease.[12]
Clinical Research Network: The Clinical Research Network is a statewide, collaborative network of faculty, community-based health-care professionals and researchers that supports clinical and translational research. The network enhances and promotes research collaboration, and it strengthens partnerships between multidisciplinary professionals who work with patients in the community via a formalized, structured and integrated network.[13]
Health IMPACTS for Florida: This research effort combines Florida State University’s strength in community-based medical education with the University of Florida’s expertise in clinical and translational science research. The statewide network of facilities affiliated with the two universities connects local communities with teams of clinical scientists, physicians and physicians-in-training, creating new opportunities to conduct clinical and public health research. In addition to benefiting the state’s 19 million residents, the universities will create new opportunities and advances for physicians, scientists and medical students while exploring the causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.[14]
Student information (2011-12 academic year): 474 medical students; 244 men, 230 women; 192 minority students; 110 underrepresented minorities (including 66 Hispanic and 37 black); 468 Florida residents. (Source: assistant dean of information management)
Choosing students: Admissions officials at the College of Medicine know that grades and test scores are important but that other factors are important as well. If the goal is to develop physicians who will serve in rural areas, for example, it makes sense to seek students who are more likely to want to live in rural areas – which often means students who grew up in such areas. The college also strives for a student body that is as diverse as the world of patients these future physicians will serve. In its admissions process, it looks into applicants’ backgrounds and explores the details of where they grew up, to what extent they have served the underserved, what is motivating them to attend medical school and much more.[15]
Culture: The medical school immerses students in a culture that embodies the characteristics it expects to see in graduates. Throughout their M.D. program, Florida State medical students learn in an environment that values diversity, mutual respect, teamwork and open communication. They also actively participate in an innovative curriculum in allopathic medicine that prepares them to become lifelong learners in an era of explosive growth in medical knowledge and information technology.[16]
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- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&fromHome=1&id=813.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU About Us - Mission". http://med.fsu.edu/?page=comAboutUs.missionVision.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU Home". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=home.communityBased.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU About Us - History". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=comAboutUs.history.
- ^ "The Florida State University College of Medicine Annual Report 2010". http://issuu.com/fsumed/docs/2010_annual_report/1?mode=a_p.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU News & Publications". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&fromHome=1&id=813.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU News & Publications". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&fromHome=1&id=818.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU News & Publications". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&fromHome=1&id=818.
- ^ "The Florida State University College of Medicine Annual Report 2010". http://issuu.com/fsumed/docs/2010_annual_report/1?mode=a_p.
- ^ "The Florida State University College of Medicine Annual Report 2010". http://issuu.com/fsumed/docs/2010_annual_report/1?mode=a_p.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU Research Division". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=researchDivision.about.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU Spotlight". http://med.fsu.edu/?fuseaction=spotlight.viewArticle&usemenu=home&article=434.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU Clinical Research Network". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=clinicalResearchNetwork.about.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU Clinical Research Network". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=clinicalResearchNetwork.impacts.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU Home - Mission". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=home.missionDriven.
- ^ "MED.FSU.EDU Home - Mission". http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=home.missionDriven.
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