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W
hen people ask me how things has done well in its first full semester, and we re preparing for the next phase of
will change in the next five accreditation next fall. This highly successful program is attracting great candidates
to who like our model and our program.
years here at the FSU
We kicked off a yearlong preparation for our April
College of Medicine, one of
accreditation site visit
my fre uent responses is I don t want to change. from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Multiple committees are
I m not resistant to change, and I recognize the working hard to demonstrate once again that our community-based, distributed
need to continuously improve what we do. But model of medical education is working very well.
our relentless focus on our uni ue mission is what Graduate medical education continues to be a successful enterprise for us. In
makes us special. Producing the doctors that Winter Haven we added a new family medicine residency program, which is
Florida needs in underserved and underrepresented areas, being responsive to community preparing for its accreditation site visit in
needs, is what differentiates us from most other medical schools. That is what I don t want to medicine program in Sarasota has been interviewing graduating medical students,
see change preparing to match its first class in March.
ever.
That being said,
. Our newly accredited emergency
Once again, we are a Higher Education Excellence in Diversity HEED Award
has been another busy year of advances and challenges. Yes, another
year of change. In these pages, you ll read about our commitment to our communities needs winner among schools in health professions, re ecting our intentional efforts to
in the following areas support our communities by producing the physicians likely to practice there.
We now have more graduates in practice than we do in residency or fellowship
After Hurricane Michael devastated our communities west of Tallahassee, the training, a nice re ection of our maturity with
graduating classes to date. You ll
response provided a clear example of why we need physicians who choose to see inside where they re practicing and how they re living our mission.
practice in small towns. In some cases, primary care was the only thing left after Speaking of maturity, some of our early faculty members and campus deans
hospitals were damaged. During and after the storm, our alumni were a vital part are retiring. We ve hired a new dean in Sarasota and started a search for a new
of both health-care delivery and recovery. regional dean in Orlando.
We broke ground on our new FSU PrimaryHealth building, which will provide a
visible commitment to an under-doctored area of southwest Tallahassee. We are
busy hiring several new physicians who will help staff this clinic along with our
The College of Medicine continues to grow and thrive. I feel blessed and thankful every day
for the great students, staff and faculty who make that happen. Happy
present clinical and behavioral medicine faculty members.
Our first class of PA students completed their
-month pre-clinical phase and
moved to the regional campuses for a year of clinical experiences. Our second class
John P. Fogarty, M.D.
Dean
.