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John P. Fogarty, M.D.
s I start my 12th year here at the FSU College of Medicine,
I’m reminded how fast time has flown and how rapidly we
seem to move through our cycle of events. After our six
regional campus graduation dinners in April and May and
the graduation of our 15th class May 18, we welcomed the M.D. Class
of 2023 on May 28. After the graduation dinners for our sponsored
residency programs around the state were complete, in the last week
of June we welcomed the new interns to their programs. In early August the M.D. Class of 2023
received their white coats, and in late August we welcomed our third class of PA students – our first
“full enrollment” class. In December, our first PA class will graduate from their 27-month program. So
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Doug Carlson
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our cycle, which used to be only medical students, now includes residents in our GME programs and PHOTOGRAPHERS
PA students – adding up to events occurring at least every month. Mark Bauer/Instructional Design
We reached a milestone in our growth this May with the opening of FSU PrimaryHealth in
southwest Tallahassee, adjacent to Sabal Palm Elementary. This FSU MED edition highlights the
opening and the local community’s response to this exciting venture. The project reflects years
of preparation and planning to build a faculty practice for the college here in Tallahassee, and it
gives us the chance to truly “live our mission” by providing primary care to a local community that
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has no options nearby. The community response has been wonderful to watch, and we created Martin Young
a community board to help us be responsive to their needs. We also see this as an opportunity to [email protected]
teach our students multidisciplinary care in actual clinical settings with other health professionals
– and an opportunity to develop innovative approaches to health-care delivery, community and
population health.
While we continue to be an innovative model for medical education without the typical
academic medical center next door, we wanted to ensure that our clinical faculty get to practice
what they teach: person-centered, interdisciplinary and evidence-based care. We want them
to build relationships and engage with our local community, and help address the many unmet
health-care needs. As our first generation of founding faculty has mostly retired, we want our new
clinical faculty to stay up-to-date and model best practices for our students – which they can do at
FSU PrimaryHealth. We are also closely integrating behavioral health with primary care in this setting,
in cooperation with our colleagues across FSU.
These are exciting times for the College of Medicine – with active medical education innovations,
residency development, maturation of the PA program and now a new clinical practice for our
students and faculty. A great team did incredible work in planning and making this project a reality.
It puts an exclamation point on this new chapter in our college’s history.
Happy fall!
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