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OUTREACH AND DIVERSITY
The College of Medicine s effort to produce alumni
achieve greater success in this area, as well. For the M.D.
The award recognizes U.S. medical, dental, pharmacy,
physicians responsive to community needs re uires a class entering U.S. and Canadian medical schools in strategic approach. It s not only about finding students only FSU, UCLA and the University of Texas Rio Grande health schools demonstrating an outstanding commitment to
who are most likely to choose to practice in locations and Valley have a first-year class with greater than diversity and inclusion. The College of Medicine is one of
specialties where they are needed most. It s about developing enrollment of both black and Hispanic students.
,
-percent
candidates for medical school who understand and believe in
the college s mission.
Even before there was a medical school at Florida State,
health-professions programs honored.
Diversity is central to our mission, College of Medicine
SSTRIDE TO THE FSU
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
the university had developed a pipeline program to increase
the number of students from medically underserved
osteopathic, nursing, veterinary, allied health and other
Dean John P. Fogarty said. This medical school was
created, in part, to produce physicians who will meet health-
care needs in communities that have traditionally struggled
·
Admitted to the College of Medicine
-present
communities who would seek careers in health care.
to provide ade uate access to care. In our mission statement,
it s called being responsive to community needs.
· Currently enrolled Diversity and Excellence SSTRIDE identifies students as · Graduated early as the seventh grade with an aptitude for science and · Currently in residency training physicians Florida
math who have such a background. · Currently in a primary-care residency program most. That includes our record of producing numerous
Science Students Together Reaching Instructional
With more than
alumni now in practice, the college has
·
This award really recognizes the fact that we are true
-
to our mission and we are succeeding in producing the
percent
as well as the rest of the U.S.
needs
alumni who now practice in rural parts of the state,
an emerging picture of how the program is contributing to · Currently in a fellowship the state s physician workforce. The College of Medicine has · Currently practicing produced , · Practicing primary care those were introduced to the program through SSTRIDE. · Practicing in Florida and best practices for both continued leadership support for
For the past two years, the College of Medicine has been · Practicing primary care in Florida diversity and other aspects of campus diversity and inclusion.
the only member of the Association of American Medical · Graduated, not practicing Colleges among the top · Did not graduate
M.D. alumni through
and
percent of
nationally for enrollment of both
especially in Northwest Florida.
HEED Award institutions were selected based on
percent
black and Hispanic students. SSTRIDE and the college s
Bridge Program have been big contributors to achieving
such a uni ue level of diversity.
While the college s ability to prepare and enroll uality
applicants from medically underserved backgrounds
remains strong, other U.S. medical schools have begun to
RECOGNIZING OUTREACH EFFORTS
For the second consecutive year, the College of Medicine
was chosen recipient of the Health Professions Higher
Education Excellence in Diversity HEED Award from
INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
recruitment and retention of students and employees