The Florida State University College of Medicine, located in Tallahassee, Florida, is one of sixteen colleges composing the Florida State University (FSU). The College is an accredited medical school, offering the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree for physicians. The College of Medicine also offers a Ph.D. degree and a Physician Assistant program.
The College of Medicine, created in 2000, is the first new medical school of the century to be reaccredited. The college was reaccredited in 2011 for the maximum eight years by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Also in 2011, it was reaccredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. That means it can continue to be a sponsoring institution for residency programs.
As of 31 December 2017 the school had 471 students, of which 465 were Florida residents, 135 were underrepresented minorities, and 195 were minority students. There were 224 men and 247 women.
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Academics
The five departments are:
- Behavioral Sciences & Social Medicine
- Biomedical Sciences
- Clinical Sciences
- Family Medicine & Rural Health
- Geriatrics
Residency programs
The Florida State University College of Medicine and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare developed an internal medicine residency program and collaborated to develop the first general surgery program in the Panhandle region of Florida. The College of Medicine has also established an internal medicine residency at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. The College of Medicine has also collaborated with Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Florida to provide an obstetrics & gynecology and pediatrics residency. It developed a Family Medicine Residency Program at Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Florida. The College of Medicine also offers a Dermatology residency as well as a procedural dermatology fellowship program with Dermatology Associates in Tallahassee. The College of Medicine has also announced their newest residency program in emergency medicine in collaboration with the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, for which they expect to be accepting their first residents in July 2019.
Fellowship programs
The Florida State University College of Medicine has two fellowship programs: family medicine global health at Lee Health, and micrographic surgery and dermatology oncology at Dermatology Associates of Tallahassee.
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Campuses
Students complete their first two years at the College's main campus in Tallahassee, which consists of a combination of traditional classroom instruction, as well as simulated clinical training at their Clinical Learning Center (CLC).
The Florida State University College of Medicine provides third- and fourth-year clinical training at regional medical school campuses in Orlando, Pensacola, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Ft. Pierce, and Daytona Beach, Florida. There are rural training sites in Marianna and Immokalee, Florida, in addition to Thomasville, Georgia.
National rankings
In 2017, the U.S. News & Report ranked the FSU College of Medicine third out of the top 10 medical schools with the lowest acceptance rates, outranked by the Mayo Clinic (ranked at #1) and Stanford University College of Medicine (ranked at #2).
References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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