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2 0 1 8 A N N U A L R E P O R T 39 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