Article about the FSU College of Medicine

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<p>Interesting article...FSU Med is now taking a class of 120 students per year.</p>

<p>With an aging population of Baby Boomers, there's a growing need for more doctors in the United States. That's just one reason Florida State University is busy training tomorrow's physicians today at its College of Medicine, which began in 2000 as the nation's first new mainstream medical school in more than 20 years.</p>

<p>"When we started the college of medicine, we were put on a course by the legislation that created [it] to have a community-based medical education program that would be a distributive model with regional campuses throughout the state," says Dean Ocie Harris.</p>

<p>In contrast to all others in the Sunshine State, instead of a large, centralized teaching hospital, FSU's medical school uses different locations around the state to train med students. These students are educated by practicing physicians in real-life settings. Their education comes at a med school that was fully accredited shortly after inception.</p>

<p>"The distributive model allows us to be highly selective in our partners in each community and then send a smaller number of students to those communities, where they can have their education," Harris says.</p>

<p>Third- and fourth-year students are schooled at regional campuses around the state in Tallahassee, Pensacola, Sarasota, Orlando—and the newest two locations, Daytona Beach and Fort Pierce.</p>

<p>"The focus and the mission of Florida State is really to serve the underserved and that's definitely the reason that I decided to become a doctor," says FSU med student Melissa Catenacci, who is just getting started in Daytona. "I just really believe in the mission, and I believe the distributed model with the regional campuses really speaks to that."
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The FSU College of Medicine has experienced significant success since its birth. In only seven years, more than 100 graduates are now practicing doctors, studying all types of medicine at some of the top residency programs in the nation. And just this summer, the College of Medicine welcomed its largest incoming class: 120 first-year students.</p>

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