<p>Looks like a significant research opportunity.
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...Unlike traditional medical schools where research takes place both in labs and in an academic medical center, the FSU College of Medicine has no single teaching hospital. Instead, the college counts more than 60 teaching hospitals, clinics and community health care centers around the state of Florida as partners in educating medical students. Physicians across Florida are part of the college's clerkship faculty, meaning they agree to teach a required or elective rotation to one or two third- or fourth-year medical students at a time.</p>
<p>The College of Medicine previously had no mechanism in place for physicians who serve as clinical faculty to participate in or lead university research projects. With this agreement with TMH, the College of Medicine now has a model that could be extended to other community hospitals where Florida State medical students learn. This would provide a foundation for the clinical research program with the potential to involve more than 1,500 physicians and their 2 million patients.</p>
<p>"Such a network would give the Florida State College of Medicine perhaps the most dynamic and all-encompassing medical research program in the state," said Myra Hurt, senior associate dean for research and graduate programs at the College of Medicine. "Few medical schools anywhere would have access to more patients of varied backgrounds and covering all of the stages of disease processes across the full continuum of human aging."...
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For the rest of the article, see: FSU</a> News</p>