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Insight Into Diversity magazine with a 2017 HEED
Award. HEED (Higher Education Excellence in
Diversity) awards recognize colleges and universities
demonstrating “an outstanding commitment to diversity and
inclusion.”
Insight Into Diversity’s editorial board and members of the Health
Professions HEED Award Advisory Board measure “an institution’s
level of achievement and intensity of commitment in regard to
broadening diversity and inclusion on campus through initiatives,
programs, and outreach; student recruitment, retention, and
completion; and hiring practices for faculty and staff.”
“One of the goals of the application process is to help institutions
of higher education assess their diversity efforts in order to build on
their success and improve where necessary,” said Insight Into Diversity
eam-based care – another way of describing the patient-
centered medical home – holds particular interest for a
medical school focusing on increasing access to primary
care. Even more so now that the new School of Physician
Assistant Practice has welcomed its first class.
“What is unique about any PA program within a medical school is that you
get an opportunity to have this interdisciplinary team early on in training,”
said Assistant Professor Susan Salahshor. “It affords us that ability to help
them be better team-based professionals because the med students and PAs
are here together and are developing a rapport with each other.”
The inaugural class of 40 PA students – selected from among more than
800 applicants – is learning with medical students in the Clinical Learning
Center and in small groups, and will cross paths with them later at regional
campuses. PA students also have the opportunity to join existing student
interest groups, such as FSUCares.
The 27-month PA program was designed to work within the M.D.
program’s blueprint. Through 15 months at the central campus, PA
students will get similar instruction in biomedical sciences through courses
in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and nutrition. During their final
year, they’ll complete clinical rotations at a regional campus – working
directly with a physician or PA.
“The opportunity to work with med students is important since we will
be working with them the rest of our lives,” said Annaelle Scanlan, a PA
student from Ave Marie in Southwest Florida. “It’s nice that we get to
interact with them – and we can see what they go through, and they know
what we go through – to prepare us for working together in the future.”
Publisher Lenore Pearlstein.
… Insight Into Diversity separately honored Thesla Berne-
Anderson with a 2017 Inspiring Leaders in STEM Award. …
Joedrecka Brown Speights, M.D., was invited to be an Association
of American Medical Colleges Leadership Forum panelist on
pursuing diversity, inclusion and equity in academic medicine.
… Jon Appelbaum, M.D., has been named permanent chair of
the Department of Clinical Sciences. … Rob Campbell, M.D.,
has been named associate dean for student affairs, replacing Chris
Leadem, Ph.D., who stepped down after eight years but will
continue to participate in the educational program. … Jeffrey Joyce,
Ph.D., succeeded Myra Hurt, Ph.D., as senior associate dean for
research and graduate programs. Hurt is now a professor and senior
associate dean for interdisciplinary medical sciences. … Anthony
Speights, M.D., has been named director of the Bridge to Clinical
Medicine master’s program and clinical faculty advisor for the
Honors Medical Scholars program.
The College also recently said goodbye to a number of longtime
faculty and staff members who retired. The list includes Gail
Bellamy, Ph.D., professor and director, Florida Blue Center for
Rural Health Research and Policy; Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D.,
Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor in the Department of
Geriatrics; Mollie Hill, director of community clinical relations;
Lynn Romrell, Ph.D., professor and director of evaluation and
assessment; Curtis Stine, M.D., associate chair of family medicine
and rural health; Harold Bland, M.D., professor of clinical sciences
and pediatrics education director; Ronald Hartsfield, dean of the
Tallahassee Regional Campus; and Marshall Kapp, director of the
Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law. Hartsfield
returned to palliative care in Tallahassee. His replacement is
Sandeep Rahangdale, who previously was president of Preventive
Cardiology & Internal Medicine Associates in Tallahassee.
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