Akash Gunjan, Ph. D., associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the FSU College of Medicine, works with medical student, Hal Bryant VanLandingham( Class of 2028), in his lab on Tallahassee’ s main campus.
FSU Health: Building the infrastructure needed to support practicing physicians interested in research
By Patrick Crowley FSU College of Medicine
Through their daily interaction with patients, physicians routinely generate questions they know would be great research topics and lend themselves to improved patient care. Time and lack of resources generally get in the way.
Physicians are busy. And their private practices, clinics and many hospitals are generally not set up to support research— they are focused on providing direct patient care.
Enter FSU Health, a transformational initiative launched by Florida State University to improve health in Florida by leveraging the university’ s cutting-edge research capabilities and educational programs to forge new partnerships with clinical care providers. As part of the FSU Health initiative, university leaders are marshalling resources to support faculty, students and staff in the university ' s 17 colleges who are pursuing health-related work, including the College of Medicine ' s clerkship faculty interested in supporting student research.
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