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HOW WE’RE UNIQUE
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We’re community-based. Instead of learning in an
academic medical center, seeing only the sickest
patients and learning largely from residents, our
students learn one-on-one from community health-
care providers in their offices, clinics and other
outpatient settings as well as in area hospitals.
Those communities are all over the state, near our
six regional campuses and our rural/clinical training
sites.
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We’re mission-driven. A large part of our mission
(see inside front cover) is to serve the underserved.
That starts with choosing the right students. Test
scores matter, but so do other factors, such as
where they grew up, what motivates them and how
they’ve already served the community. We immerse
them in a culture that values diversity, mutual
respect, teamwork and open communication —
and prepares them to become lifelong learners.
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We’re focused on primary care. Through 2017,
more than half of our M.D. alumni matched in
one of these primary-care specialties: internal
medicine, family medicine, pediatrics or obstetrics-
gynecology. Most of our alumni now practicing in
Florida are in primary care, and a good percentage
of those are in a rural area, where recruiting new
physicians can be a challenge.
ACADEMIC DEGREES
∑ ∑ M.D.
∑ ∑ Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences
∑ ∑ M.S. in Biomedical Sciences–Bridge to Clinical
Medicine Major
∑ ∑ M.S. in Physician Assistant Practice
∑ ∑ B.S. in Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences