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OUTREACH AND DIVERSITY
112 GRADUATES OF THE BRIDGE PROGRAM (2002-2019)
BRIDGE GRADUATES – WHERE THEY ARE PRACTICING
Thesla Berne-Anderson, director of college and pre-
college outreach and a founder of the SSTRIDE program,
Other states 19.7%
Practicing physicians 54.5%
received the 2019 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished
Service Award from Florida State University. She’s the fourth
Texas 8.2%
Florida 54.1%
In a medical residency
program 40.2%
honor.
“Even before we had a medical school, Ms. Anderson
North
Carolina
8.2%
Not currently
in a residency
program 1.7%
College of Medicine faculty or staff member to receive the
was a driving force in developing very successful outreach
Georgia 9.8%
Completing a fellowship 3.6%
programs that would seek out and develop students from
early in junior high school who exemplify our mission,” said
John P. Fogarty, dean of the College of Medicine. “She has
mentored a generation of students who are not only first in
Susan LaJoie has been named Migrant Health Professional
of the Year by the Florida Department of Education’s
BRIDGE PROGRAM GRADUATES NOW PRACTICING
their family to go to college, but certainly the first to go to
medical school.”
Bureau of Federal Educational Programs. LaJoie, assistant
professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Family
Medicine and Rural Health, is a nurse practitioner at the
Other specialties 24.5%
Gadsden County school-based clinics.
“Thanks to her efforts and passion to serve, migrant students
Internal
medicine
6.6%
Family
medicine
37.7%
schools in the Association of American Medical
Colleges. Based on AAMC data for more than 140
students and families as she encourages young men and women M.D. programs, Florida State was the only school
alike to become the nurses, doctors, engineers, biologists and among the top 10 nationally for enrollment of both
more they dream of becoming,” the awards program stated. black and Hispanic students for the 2016-17 and
Department to provide services to students in need. LaJoie
Pediatrics 19.7%
Medicine has been among the most diverse member
have a community advocate that is changing the lives of
The College of Medicine partners with the Gadsden Health
OB-GYN 11.5%
For four consecutive years, the FSU College of
2017-18 academic years.
Currently, FSU, UCLA and the University of
has worked in Gadsden since 2007 providing primary-care Texas Rio Grande Valley are the only medical
services to students at George Munroe Elementary School schools with a greater-than-10-percent enrollment of
otolaryngology, plastic surgery, psychiatry, radiology, sports medicine and and Shanks Middle School as well as in other schools by both black and Hispanic students.
surgical oncology. request. The school-based clinic program is funded by Dance
(other specialties include: cardiology, colorectal surgery, emergency
medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery,
Marathon at FSU.