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TALLAHASSEE: REACHING OUT
For the past five years, the Tallahassee Regional Campus
from all over the community and proudly sent them back
to Tallahassee – but not before posing for a great group has collected toys, gift cards and gently used clothing for
picture.” the underserved families of nearby Quincy. “We are grateful
This past year also provided opportunities to increase the
visibility of the Sarasota Regional Campus. Information members who donated in 2019,” said Campus Dean Sandeep
about the College of Medicine mission and unique regional Rahangdale. “With the help of our community partners and
campus model was presented to community boards of medical students, we were able to serve 150 children and
local hospitals, the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and families.”   
That was one example of the campus’s community
surrounding colleges and universities.
SARASOTA: STRENGTHENING
COMMUNITY TIES
For Sarasota Campus Dean Nicole Bentze, the highlight
of every year is strengthening relationships with community
agencies that provide care for vulnerable populations outside
the walls of traditional hospitals and doctors’ offices. During
the Community Medicine course, third-year medical students
are embedded in a variety of local, nonprofit agencies to
to all the students, community faculty members and staff
connections. Overall, it was a busy year. “We welcomed
“We look forward to new collaborations with local
our first class of PA students,” Rahangdale said, “and they
undergraduate pre-med interest groups,” Bentze said.
“Sarasota SSTRIDE continues to promote STEM education worked well alongside our medical students throughout
and provide a pipeline to FSU for local eighth- through 12 the year. This interdisciplinary education benefited medical
graders.” and PA students alike – and, as of the end of the year,
th
The College of Medicine in 2019 bade farewell to its iconic
five of our six PA students had found jobs in Tallahassee
pink building in favor of a new campus location closer to immediately benefiting patients in the community. The sixth
medical settings ­­– and with more parking. will be repaying his VA student scholarship by working
with a VA medical center. And in 2019 students from our
experience a different way of promoting health and disease campus started working with the local VA Community-based
prevention. Working as a member of the agency, instead of Outpatient Clinic.
merely being an observer, strengthens the medical students’
When the M.D. students from the Tallahassee campus
tie to the Sarasota community and helps mold them into matched in 2019, seven of them went into family medicine.
better physicians-in-training. Others matched in internal medicine, pediatrics, general
“Another highlight was the teddy bear collection for the
surgery, psychiatry, emergency medicine and orthopedic
student-run Teddy Bear Clinic in Tallahassee,” Bentze surgery. “Many of these graduates matched locally,”
said. “The M.D. and PA students encouraged donations Rahangdale said, “and even more hope to return to practice
medicine in North Florida.”