http://med.fsu.edu FSU College of Medicine News Wed, 22 May 2013 14:04:00 GMT Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://issuu.com/fsumed/docs/2012_annual_report?mode=window&pageNumber=1 CONTACT: Doug Carlson (850) 645-1255; doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu Oct. 31, 2011    Dance Marathon at Florida State University and Children’s Miracle Network at Shands Children’s Hospital at the University of Florida will present a $232,000 check to the Florida State University College of Medicine for the benefit of children throughout Gadsden and Leon counties.   The proceeds are part of the record $487,000 raised in 2011 by Dance Marathon, the largest student-run philanthropy on the Florida State campus. Children’s Miracle Network at Shands Children’s Hospital at UF distributes part of the money raised to the Florida State College of Medicine for use in pediatric outreach programs.   The College of Medicine is using part of the proceeds to pay for a school-based health program in Gadsden County designed to address health care disparities among area children. Other projects funded by the Dance Marathon earnings include equipment for the pediatrics unit at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Scheduled to participate in the ceremony are Florida State President Eric J. Barron, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Garnett S. Stokes, Dr. John P. Fogarty, dean of the FSU College of Medicine; Dr. Rick Bucciarelli, associate vice president forhealth affairs for government relations at the University of Florida; members of the Dance Marathon overall committee; and Florida State medical students who are part of the Pediatrics Interest Group. The presentation will take place:   TUESDAY, NOV. 1   12 P.M.   FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   1115 W. CALL ST.   TALLAHASSEE, FLA.   Directions: From downtown travel west on Tennessee Street and turn left on Stadium Drive. The College of Medicine is located on the corner of Stadium Drive and Call Street. Limited press parking will be available by RSVP in a parking lot located off of Call Street between the College of Medicine and the Psychology Building. Additional parking is available in the parking garage on the corner of Stadium Drive and Spirit Way.   Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=827 Affectionately known as the mother of the Florida State University College of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean Myra Hurt has used her leadership skills to make numerous contributions to education, science and research in Florida.   Hurt was recognized for her efforts this week when she received the FL CURED Jim King Leadership Award in Tampa.   The annual award, presented by Florida’sCenter for Universal Research to Eradicate Disease (FL CURED), honors outstanding efforts to expand and enhance the state’s biomedical research enterprise and expedite cures. Hurt is the 2011 co-recipient of the award along with William Dalton, president and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center.   The award is named after the late Florida Sen. Jim King, who sponsored legislation leading to creation of the Florida Biomedical Research Program.   Hurt is a professor of biomedical sciences and senior associate dean for research and graduate programs at the College of Medicine. Since 2006, she has served as a member of the advisory council that rates and recommends biomedical research projects for funding in Florida.   She was nominated for a seat on the nine-person council by Sen. King.   “I think it’s really gratifying to win this award that bears Jim King’s name because his legacy is, among other things, the biomedical research program his legislation created,” Hurt said. “We’ve certainly seen a challenging and difficult funding environment in Florida, where biomedical research plays a vital role in the health of our citizens and in driving our economy.   “The research funding Jim King made possible has, in some cases, been the only thing providing a chance for new investigators and researchers in Florida. That’s our future.”   Though Hurt has devoted a lifetime to scientific research and teaching, her work in pushing for a new medical school at Florida State is credited with a far-reaching impact in also promoting new research by others, both in Florida and nationally.   Florida State’s medical school was the first new M.D. program to open in the United States in nearly a quarter-century. The battle for approval ultimately led to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) reversing course on its previous stance that America had a physician surplus.   In 2006, the AAMC called for a 30-percent increase in medical school enrollment. That opened the door for a wave of new medical schools, including three in Florida, each of which is sponsoring a biomedical science research program. “There is no doubt that Myra’s leadership stimulated, at least in part, this burst of activity,” wrote FSU College of Medicine Biomedical Sciences Chair Richard Nowakowski in his nomination letter.   “Myra has not rested on this success,” Nowakowski said. “She founded the Ph.D. program at the College of Medicine . . . and is starting a clinical research network that will provide a way for primary care physicians across Florida to meaningfully participate in translational research.”   College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty cited the rapid growth of the medical school’s biomedical research program as a testament to Hurt’s impact.   “She has brought her incredible energy and drive to build the research productivity and infrastructure in the past eight years,” Fogarty said. “Research success as measured by grants and contracts has increased by 500 percent in the past five years, and the College of Medicine now occupies 18 percent of the total research funding of the university.   “Dr. Hurt’s vision, leadership and lifetime commitment to medical education and research in Florida are exemplary.”   For more information about the College of Medicine, contact Doug Carlson at (850) 645-1255, (850) 694-3735 or doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu.   Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=820 October 2011 What began as a big week for the Florida State University College of Medicine became even bigger. On Oct. 21, two days after celebrating the news that it had been reaccredited for eight years by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the college got similar news about its graduate medical education program. That vote of confidence from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education means the medical school can continue to be a sponsoring institution for residency programs, the next step for medical students after their M.D. degree. The College of Medicine has two such programs at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola: one in pediatrics and one in obstetrics-gynecology. It also is launching an internal medicine residency program with Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and a family medicine one with Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers. “As the first new medical school of the 21st century, it’s very meaningful to have outside validation of the successful outcomes our program is producing,” said Dr. Alma Littles, senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs. “We are working hard to prepare our students to be successful in their graduate medical education following the completion of medical school. We’ve seen this hard work paying off in the feedback we get from residency program directors about the quality of our graduates, including the high percentage of our graduates who are awarded chief resident status. “With this seal of approval from the ACGME, we have a clear statement that we also will be there to help provide excellent training opportunities beyond medical school.”   Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=818 The Florida State University College of Medicine has been granted a maximum eight-year accreditation by the sanctioning body of U.S. medical schools.   With the favorable ruling from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), Florida State becomes the first new medical school of the 21st century to be reaccredited.   “This news was not unexpected based on the remarkable outcomes this medical school has produced since the first class of 30 students arrived in 2001,” said College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty. “The leaders, administrators, faculty and students who helped plan and build this program should be extremely proud, as should all of our friends and supporters.”   LCME accreditation occurs every eight years as part of a nearly two-year process that includes a rigorous self-study by the applying institution and a thorough inspection from the LCME site visit team. Florida State’s site visit took place in early April.   The survey team was made up of representatives from six medical schools and included two deans, a professor of internal medicine, a fourth-year medical student, a vice dean for academic affairs and an associate dean for medical education.   Their report served as the basis for the LCME’s decision regarding Florida State’s compliance with accreditation standards in five areas: institutional setting, educational program for the M.D. degree, medical students, faculty and educational resources. Only LCME-accredited institutions may receive federal grants for medical education and participate in federal loan programs.   In addition, attendance at an LCME-accredited program is required for U.S. allopathic medical students before they can take the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam or enter residency programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.   “Institutional accreditation assures that medical education takes place in a sufficiently rich environment to foster broad academic purposes,” said Dr. Alma Littles, senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs at the College of Medicine.   In its letter of accreditation, the LCME cited several areas of strength within the program at Florida State:   ·         “The College of Medicine is a student-centered, educationally focused organization in which decision making and priority setting are guided by its primary mission to develop exemplary, patient-oriented physicians.”   ·         “The College of Medicine has a long-standing, well-organized and successful program for pipeline development and recruitment of students of diverse backgrounds.”   ·         “The community faculty apprenticeship model of clinical education provides students with the opportunity to see large numbers of patients, to be involved in all aspects of their care, and to be closely observed for development of competence in their roles as physicians.”   ·         “The College of Medicine should be commended for an impressive faculty development program, particularly for the diverse nature of the offerings and the sheer volume of effort expended to support the development of faculty on an ongoing basis.”   ·         “The retention rate for community faculty is high, creating a stable educational platform for the clinical program.”   Florida State is one of four fully accredited allopathic medical schools in Florida, along with those at the universities of Florida, Miami and South Florida.   Florida State began formal preparations for its LCME site visit in November 2009, conducting an exhaustive self-study involving more than 100 faculty, staff, administrators and students. The study took more than 18 months to complete.   Since first gaining full accreditation status in 2005, the Florida State University College of Medicine has opened new regional campuses in Sarasota, Fort Pierce and Daytona Beach and rural clinical training sites in Marianna and Immokalee; graduated seven classes; and grown from around 170 medical students to a full enrollment of 480. The new regional campuses are in addition to previously opened campuses in Orlando, Pensacola and Tallahassee.   LCME site-visit committee members indicated they were impressed by how well Florida State administers its community-based program, which sends third- and fourth-year students to cities across the state to receive one-on-one clinical training from experienced physicians. The learning takes place where the vast majority of people receive their health care, giving students the opportunity to directly interact with patients and take part in the types of cases they are most likely to encounter as practicing physicians.   The model is credited with helping Florida State produce a greater percentage of graduates entering primary care residency programs than any other medical school in the state since 2005.   “Our graduation and match statistics, our strong board scores and student performance with our community model, and the impacts we are having across the state have validated that this model is working and working very well,” Fogarty said. “We appreciated having an opportunity to share examples of that success with our LCME site visitors.”   The LCME is a joint committee of the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges.     Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=813 By Doug Carlson    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida State University College of Medicine and the Lee Memorial Health System Board of Directors today announced plans to create a family medicine residency program in Fort Myers.   The program, expected to produce six new family practice physicians a year when at full capacity, will be the first allopathic residency program south of Tampa/St. Petersburg along Florida’s southwest coast. Among the fastest growing regions in the state, the area is in need of more physicians to take care of a population that grew by more than 40 percent in Lee County between 2000 and 2010.   “This is an exciting first for Southwest Florida,” said Richard Akin, chairman of the board of Lee Memorial Health System. “Bringing a medical residency program to our community will improve the delivery of health care to our residents, and the opportunity to partner with Florida State University’s medical school enhances our community’s reputation as well.”   The family medicine residency program will be based at Lee Memorial Hospital with the Florida State University College of Medicine as its institutional sponsor. The program could begin taking applications from prospective residents as early as 2012 and admit its first class in July 2013.   Medical school graduates are required to complete residency training in their chosen specialty in order to gain board certification and become an independently practicing physician. Numerous studies have shown that most physicians end up practicing near where they completed residency training.   At present, Florida ranks 43rd nationally in the number of residents per 100,000 population, despite being the fourth-most-populous state in the country.   “In reaching our 10th anniversary with full enrollment and a great track record of success, we are now seeing the need to have more residency programs around the state to train our graduates and provide Florida communities with the doctors they most need,” said John P. Fogarty, M.D., dean of the College of Medicine, a board-certified family physician and chair of the Florida Council of Medical School Deans.   “One of the top priorities of my fellow medical school deans here in Florida is to support increasing the number of residency positions in Florida,” Fogarty said.   To date, 450 physicians have graduated from the FSU College of Medicine, which first accepted students in 2001. Family medicine and internal medicine are the top two residency program choices for College of Medicine alumni.   In 2011, 17 percent of Florida State’s 114 medical school graduates entered family medicine residency programs, with more than half of those heading out of state for residency training.   Nationally, 8.4 percent of all graduating U.S. medical students chose family medicine in 2011.   “Even though the number of our graduates to complete residency training at this point is relatively small, there is evidence that when they train in Florida it keeps them in Florida, especially in the communities where their training takes place,” said Alma Littles, M.D., senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs at the FSU College of Medicine and a former Florida Family Physician of the Year.   “For example, all seven College of Medicine alumni who completed a family medicine residency program in Tallahassee in June now are practicing in North Florida,” Littles said.   Of the 47 FSU College of Medicine graduates to complete graduate medical education in Florida, 42 (89 percent) are now practicing in Florida.   Funding for graduate medical education comes from a variety of sources, primarily from the federal government through Medicare. The number of federally funded residency training slots was capped in 1997 by the Balanced Budget Act. Florida has seen dramatic population increases in the interim, but its available number of residency slots has held steady.   “As the baby boomer population ages, we are going to need more primary care physicians in our community,” said Scott Nygaard, M.D., chief medical officer of physician services for Lee Memorial Health System. “We are creating this training program to address that need, and we are making the necessary financial commitment to create a pipeline of primary care physicians who will make Southwest Florida their home.”   The residency program will be the fourth for the FSU College of Medicine, which also sponsors programs in pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology (in Pensacola) and internal medicine (in Tallahassee).   “The College of Medicine commends Lee Memorial Health System for recognizing the return on investment to the patient community by training more primary care physicians, despite limitations in federal funding,” said Christopher Mulrooney, assistant dean for graduate medical education and chief operating officer of the College of Medicine faculty practice plan.   “The reality is that health care cannot be provided to those who need it without enough providers to do the job,” Mulrooney said. “Lee Memorial understands that reality.” ### CONTACT: Doug Carlson, FSU College of Medicine (850) 694-3735; doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu  -or- Mary Briggs, Lee Memorial Health System (239) 454-8765; mary.briggs@leememorial.org     Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=782 On Monday, the Florida State University College of Medicine and Lee Memorial Health System will unveil plans for a doctor training program intended to create more primary care physicians for Southwest Florida. At present, Florida ranks 43rd nationally in number of the number of medical residents. The fourth most populous state in the nation, Florida faces a severe physician shortage particularly in primary care specialties, in rural areas and in the number of doctors to care for the state’s rapidly expanding population of older patients. On average, 60 percent of graduating medical students in Florida leave the state for residency training. A physician is far more likely to set up practice in the community where he or she completes graduate medical education (residency or fellowship) than near where he or she graduated from medical school. Presently, there are no allopathic residency programs south of Tampa along Florida’s west coast. Participating in the announcement will be Florida State University College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty and Richard Akin, chairman of the board at Lee Memorial Health System and president and CEO of Collier Health Services, Inc. MONDAY, AUGUST 8 NOON LEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUDITORIUM 2776 CLEVELAND AVE. FORT MYERS (near the entrance to the emergency room)   Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=780 CONTACT: John Fraser, FSU Office of Intellectual Property Development and Commercialization (850) 644-8637; jfraser@techtransfer.fsu.edu   By Elizabeth Bettendorf June 2011 TO MOVE CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH FROM LAB TO MARKETPLACE Researchers at Florida State University seeking to shepherd their research out of the laboratory and into the crowded commercial marketplace have a friend in the FSU Research Foundation. Since 2005, the foundation has funded a highly energetic — and competitive — grant program that supports those researchers and their extraordinary efforts.   The Grant Assistance Program, or GAP, awards those who can most clearly identify the commercial feasibility of a process, product, license or start-up company that they believe will grow from their endeavors with a commercial partner.   The GAP awards are given out twice yearly. The four projects that earned GAP funding during the most recent awards cycle (Spring 2011) are:   • Nanobelt Biosensors: A $50,000 award goes to P. Bryant Chase, professor and chairman of the FSU Department of Biological Science, and Professor Peng Xiong of the Department of Physics, for the development and testing of a device that can be used to sense the presence of hepatitis C viral proteins. If the researchers are successful, their technology potentially has many other commercial applications. • Light-Activated Agents for Anticancer Drugs: A $25,000 award goes to Professor Igor Alabugin of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to further develop a novel cancer-fighting approach that uses exposure to light to activate a powerful class of anticancer molecules. When exposed to light, these molecules can target and destroy cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed. If successful, Alabugin will be much closer to developing a therapy regime that will be of great commercial interest to the cancer research industry. • A Novel Approach to Treating Stroke Victims: A $25,000 award goes to Ewa Bienkiewicz, an assistant scholar/scientist in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, for development of a therapeutic agent that can go into the body and naturalize the effect of toxic hemin release following a stroke. Hemin is a byproduct of the breakdown of hemoglobin, which occurs after a stroke.  Currently there is only one approved option for stroke patients, a “clot-buster” class of drugs that must be given within three hours of a stroke. This new therapy could begin up to 24 hours following a stroke’s onset. The GAP funding will help Bienkiewicz take her current work much closer to a point where it will have commercial opportunity. High Performance Flexible Batteries: A $12,000 award goes to Professor Richard Liang of FSU’s High Performance Materials Institute, and Jesse Smithyman, a doctoral student working under Liang, for a technology that uses carbon nanotubes as the basis for smaller, more flexible batteries that will be part of the devices they power. Liang and his fellow researchers will take the flexible battery technology through more rigid testing and evaluation and bring it closer to where it can be built into “real” products. All GAP award recipients will be assigned a team of mentors composed of local business leaders. The groups will meet four times a year to provide expertise and assistance with product development.   “One of the most important contributions that large research universities can make is to nurture the scientific and technological expertise that our society depends on to generate commercially viable breakthroughs in medicine, computer technology, energy generation and so many other areas,” said Kirby Kemper, Florida State’s vice president for Research. “With this new round of GAP awards, we are able to support researchers who may be on the brink of bringing research break-throughs to market. “   For more information about the GAP Program at Florida State University, visit http://www.techtransfer.fsu.edu.   To read this article online and view associated images and a video clip featuring the award winners, visit http://www.fsu.com/Featured-Stories/Four-FSU-projects-win-GAP-awards-to-move-cutting-edge-research-from-lab-to-marketplace.   Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=766 PRESS RELEASE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY CONTACTS: Mark Kasper, director, Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine; (850) 644-1829 or mkasper@fsu.edu Rob Wilson, Athletics; (850) 644-5678 or rlwilson@fsu.edu Doug Carlson, College of Medicine; (850) 645-1255 or doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu Robert C. Eklund, College of Education; (850) 645-2909 or erobert@fsu.edu Libby Fairhurst, News and Public Affairs, (850) 644-4030 or efairhurst@fsu.edu   TALLAHASSEE ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC (TOC) CONTACTS: Dr. Tom Haney, M.D.; (850) 893-2429 or thaneyhsd@earthlink.net TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —  Florida State University (FSU) experts in medicine, exercise science, nutrition, sports psychology and athletic training have partnered with one of the nation’s premier sports medicine and orthopedic treatment centers to establish the Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine (ISSM), a public-private collaboration that spells good news for millions of athletes of all ages.   Based at Florida State, the institute will lead interdisciplinary research and educational outreach programs focused on the development of elite-level athletic and human performance –– including an emphasis on long-term health and the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries such as concussions.   A formidable team, the ISSM links a top-tier research university and sports powerhouse with distinguished sports medicine physicians at Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic (TOC), which has provided comprehensive orthopedic health care for more than 35 years.   “Our institute’s focus is the end-users –– athletes of all ages –– and all its activities will be designed to directly benefit them by promoting peak performance and optimal health,” said ISSM Director Mark J. Kasper, a faculty member in FSU’s Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences. “Our research and outreach efforts will target the general public as well as the medical and scientific communities.”   Under construction is a state-of-the-art Human Performance Laboratory that will house the ISSM research and programs. Located near the Florida State University track-and-field complex, the laboratory is slated for completion by fall. Then, research will become a key part of the game plan.   Among the forthcoming projects:   • Physicians from TOC will lead a study of “autologous conditioned plasma” –– also known as platelet-rich plasma –– which may help to speed the healing of persistent tendon injuries. To obtain the plasma, a patient’s blood is drawn and spun to separate the platelet-rich portion from the red blood cells. The platelet-rich plasma is then injected back into the patient at the injury site. While some U.S. sports-medicine doctors are already performing the procedure, it is still considered experimental. • Kasper will develop a database for athletes –– especially those at the high school level –– to track the incidence and prevalence of injuries and other chronic conditions over time as athletes age. • For medical students interested in sports sciences and medicine, Dr. Daniel Van Durme, chairman of the FSU College of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, is developing ISSM mentoring opportunities that will include summer research fellowships and research electives during the fall and spring semesters. “The rural, minority, elderly and other underserved populations with which College of Medicine students work may particularly benefit from the institute’s efforts to better understand and improve exercise behaviors,” Van Durme said.   When it comes to the practical application of cutting-edge sports medicine research, FSU Intercollegiate Athletics Director Randy Spetman predicts an international role for the institute and an invaluable one closer to home.   “We are very pleased that our outstanding student-athletes will have the opportunity to work within this innovative program and benefit from an association with world-class experts in the sports-medicine field,” said Spetman, a key member of the ISSM team along with Athletics’ award-winning strength-and-conditioning coach, Jon Jost.   Institute partner Dr. Tom C. Haney of TOC has a long association with Florida State University –– as a former student (B.S., biological science, 1964), a courtesy professor in the College of Human Sciences, and in his work as FSU team physician from 1975-2009.   “All of our TOC physicians have published research articles in the past, but the demands of our orthopedic practices make it very difficult to pursue our research ideas,” Haney said. “Now, the Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine gives us a rare, wonderful opportunity to work with FSU professors and students on beneficial research in areas of mutual interest.”   In addition to Kasper, institute leaders at Florida State include associate directors Angela Sehgal and Michele Garber, athletic trainers in the College of Human Sciences. Joining institute partner Spetman and advisors Jost (Athletics) and Van Durme (College of Medicine) is College of Education Professor Robert C. Eklund, an internationally recognized expert in sports psychology. From Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic, CEO Martin Shipman joins Drs. Haney and Steve E. Jordan as institute partners.   For an online version of this story, associated images, and a video featuring Kasper, Shipman and Jost, visit the Florida State University news site at http://fsu.edu/news/2011/05/11/sports.sciences/.   For additional information about Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic, go to www.tlhoc.com.   Wed, 11 May 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=599 For five days during the first week in April, the College of Medicine hosted a six-person accreditation survey team representing the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. The important visit took less than a week, but the college’s effort to make a strong impression was years in the making. The site visit is a key step in the path to reaccreditation. While there are indications that the visit was a success, the process is not complete. The site visit team's findings will be forwarded to the LCME, which possibly will render a decision about the College of Medicine's reaccreditation during a regularly scheduled meeting in Chicago in October. “While a number of new medical schools have started since we received our initial accreditation in 2005, we are the newest medical school undergoing the reaccreditation process in this century,” said Alma Littles, senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs. The survey team was made up of representatives from six medical schools and included two deans, a professor of internal medicine, a fourth-year medical student, a vice dean for academic affairs and an associate dean for medical education. The team now will produce the report that will serve as the basis for the LCME vote on whether to approve the College of Medicine’s reaccreditation through 2019. In the report, the survey team will describe the College of Medicine’s educational program and account for how well it complies with accreditation standards.“The LCME states, ‘Institutional accreditation assures that medical education takes place in a sufficiently rich environment to foster broad academic purposes,’” Littles said.  Formal preparations for the site visit began with a committee meeting at the main campus in November 2009, but an argument could be made that preparations actually began as soon as the College of Medicine received its initial full accreditation in February 2005.Since then, the college has opened new regional campuses in Sarasota, Daytona Beach and Fort Pierce and rural clinical training sites in Marianna and Immokalee; graduated six classes; and grown from around 170 medical students to its current full enrollment of 480. “Celebrating the College of Medicine’s 10th anniversary this past year while reviewing our strategic plan and performing our year-long LCME self-study highlighted how far the medical school has come in our short lifetime,” said John P. Fogarty, who arrived as dean in August 2008.“We have now expanded to full enrollment, fully opened and succeeded at our regional campuses and rural sites, and built a strong research portfolio since the last LCME site visit in 2004.” The 18-month round of formal preparations leading up to the April 3-7 site visit were devoted to compiling a medical education database used as the basis for performing an institutional self-study. “The institutional self-study is one of the most important activities we undertake as a College of Medicine,” Littles said. “More than 100 individuals participated directly in our self-study process, and more than 1,000 faculty members and students responded to surveys that were implemented as a part of that process. Five subcommittees and an independent student self-study committee collected more than 1,300 pages of data, responding to the 125 LCME accreditation standards.”  The database mailed to the LCME in February was packed into eight boxes and weighed more than 300 pounds. Those boxes contained plenty of success stories that should carry some weight with the survey team. “Our graduation and match statistics, our strong board scores and student performance with our community model, and the impacts we are having across the state have validated that this model is working and working very well,” Fogarty said. “We appreciated having an opportunity to share examples of that success with our site visitors." In addition to spending 2½ days at the main campus, the survey team split up for visits to regional campuses in Tallahassee, Daytona Beach and Pensacola, along with an afternoon at the rural clinical training site in Marianna. The team met with students from the main campus and from the regional campuses, faculty, administrators, staff, clerkship directors and clerkship faculty.   Accreditation procedures   LCME steering committee convenes Dec. 11, 2009 Educational program database developed and distributed April-September 2010 Steering committee prepares summary report January Final database and self-study summary submitted Feb. 9-10 Accreditation survey visit Oct. 4-6 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=531  CONTACT: Doug Carlson (850) 645-1255 or (850) 694-3735; doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu   By Doug Carlson March 17, 2011   TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — All 114 students in the Class of 2011 — the seventh and largest class to graduate from the medical school — found out during a Match Day ceremony today where they will enter residency training this summer after graduation.   Sixty-one of the graduating students, or 54 percent, are entering residency in primary care specialties, including family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine and obstetrics/gynecology. Other students matched in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, neurology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, psychiatry, diagnostic radiology, general surgery and urology.   “I’m very pleased that once again our students have matched at excellent programs throughout Florida and the rest of the country. We are producing great students who are sought out by the best programs,” said College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty. “I am also pleased that the top choices for our students continue to be in primary care and general surgery, consistent with our mission of creating the kind of doctors that Florida needs the most.”   At the same time, Fogarty said, the number of students leaving the state for training is a strong indication of the need for more residency programs in Florida.   “Partnerships like the one we just established with Tallahassee Memorial Hospital to sponsor an internal medicine residency are critical to meeting Florida’s physician work force needs,” he said.   The residency match, conducted annually by the National Resident Matching Program, is the primary system that matches applicants to residency programs with available positions at U.S. teaching hospitals. Graduating medical students across the country receive their match information at the same time on the same day. # # # For information about FSU’s Match Day history, visit http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=alumniFriends.whereTheyMatched   To see where past College of Medicine graduates are practicing, visit http://med.fsu.edu/alumni/alumni.aspx?class=2005 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=525 March 15, 2011 Members of the Florida State University College of Medicine Class of 2011 will find out where they will receive residency training — a defining moment in their medical careers — during a Match Day ceremony on Thursday. During the ceremony, the students will simultaneously open envelopes, learning for the first time where they will spend the next three to seven years completing training in the medical specialty they will practice. Graduating students at M.D.-granting medical schools across the United States receive their match information at the same time through the National Residency Matching Program, the primary system that matches applicants to residency programs with available positions at U.S. teaching hospitals. The ceremony will take place: THURSDAY, MARCH 17 NOON RUBY DIAMOND CONCERT HALL TALLAHASSEE The ceremony also will be webcast live. Visit http://www.med.fsu.edu/ for more information.     CONTACT: Doug Carlson (850) 645-1255; doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu   Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=523 Few events hold more drama, or have more impact, in the life of a medical student than Match Day. For many, the sealed envelope holds the key to the future. The residency match is conducted annually by the National Resident Matching Program. It’s the primary system for pairing graduating medical students across the United States with residency programs at teaching hospitals. At the College of Medicine, 114 students from the Class of 2011 are expected to learn where they will continue their medical education. Graduating medical students across the country receive their match information at the same time on the same day. The College of Medicine’s ceremony takes place: Thursday, March 17 12 p.m. Ruby Diamond Concert Hall Tallahassee, Fla. View the Match Day Webcast College of Medicine Residency Match Day results from 2005-2011 Where are they now? Updated information about College of Medicine alumni. new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'search', search: '#MatchDayFSU', interval: 6000, title: 'Florida State University', subject: 'Match Day 2011', width: 300, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '#690303', color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#ffffff', color: '#000000', links: '#690303' } }, features: { scrollbar: true, loop: true, live: true, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: true, toptweets: true, behavior: 'default' } }).render().start(); Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=511 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Some of the biggest names in evolutionary medicine will be in Tallahassee Feb. 25 and 26 for an international conference at The Florida State University. Registration for the conference, “Evolutionary Medicine: Contributions to the Study of Disease and Immunity,” is free and open to the public. The keynote speakers include one of the founders of the evolutionary medicine field –– Dr. Randolph Nesse of the University of Michigan –– and the co-author of the field’s first textbook, Sir Peter Gluckman of the University of Auckland (New Zealand).  Also scheduled to speak are Kathleen Barnes, of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health; Paul Ewald, director of the Evolutionary Medicine Program at the University of Louisville; and Michael Ruse, the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. Evolutionary medicine is the application of evolutionary knowledge to the understanding and treatment of health and disease. Nesse has described it this way: “We’re trying to understand why natural selection has not made the body better, why natural selection has left the body with vulnerabilities. For every single disease, there is an answer to that question. And for very few of them is the answer very clear yet.” “Evolutionary medicine is on the cutting edge of how we think about health and disease,” said Joseph Gabriel, an assistant professor in the FSU College of Medicine and a member of the conference’s organizing committee. “It’s tremendously exciting to have some of the leading experts in the world come to Florida State University to discuss the topic with us.” Nesse is a professor of psychiatry and psychology and the director of the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is the author of “Why We Get Sick” (1995; co-written with the now-late George Williams), the founding document of the field. Gluckman is a University of Auckland Distinguished Professor and one of New Zealand’s most highly decorated medical scientists. In 2001 he was awarded New Zealand’s highest scientific award, the Rutherford Medal. He served as the first Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and is the founding director of the Liggins Institute, home of the Centre for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Disease. Gluckman is the co-author of “Principles of Evolutionary Medicine,” the first textbook on the topic. The two-day conference will be held: FRIDAY, FEB. 25 8:30 – 5:30 AUDITORIUM FSU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   AND   SATURDAY, FEB. 26 9:30 – 5:30 ROOM 1024 KING LIFE SCIENCES BUILDING   Register for the conference and find a complete schedule at www.bio.fsu.edu/FowlerII/. For a map of the Florida State campus, go to http://map.campus.fsu.edu/index.aspx. Cosponsors of the conference are Florida State’s College of Medicine, Department of Biological Science, and History and Philosophy of Science Program. Support for the event comes from the Frank and Yolande Fowler Endowment in Modern Molecular Biology and the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Endowment Fund.     Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=503 CONTACT: Ron Hartung (850) 645-9205; ronald.hartung@med.fsu.edu Feb. 15, 2011                                                                                      FOR THE 10th YEAR, FSUCARES IS SPENDING SPRING BREAK ON MEDICAL OUTREACH TRIPS If it’s spring break, don’t look for the students of FSUCares on a beach or at a bar. This year, like every year since the Florida State College of Medicine welcomed its first class in 2001, these students will be giving out medical supplies and treatment — and getting a cultural education in return. On Wednesday, Feb. 16, they will be available for interviews and photos as they pack medical supplies donated by the Tallahassee community. Fourteen first- and second-year College of Medicine students will make the annual trip, along with six faculty members. They will split into three groups: one in Immokalee, southwest Florida; one on the Texas border; and one in a small village in Panama. Spring break is March 7-11. FSUCares’ mission is to increase outreach to underserved communities, said Elena Reyes, faculty adviser for FSUCares. She also is the director for the “Cross-Cultural Medicine” course, an elective designed to help students develop the knowledge and skills to work with Florida’s underserved Latino community. “In Panama, we will be working in the clinic that we helped build through donations in the small Filipina village,” Reyes said. “The theme for the 10th-anniversary trip is long-term community partnership through service-learning.” Besides medical supplies, FSUCares also has been collecting gently used clothing for all three sites. Students will be available for interviews and photos on: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16 4:30 – 6:30 P.M. FSU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 1115 W. CALL ST., TALLAHASSEE Directions: From downtown, travel west on Tennessee Street and turn left on Stadium Drive. The College of Medicine is at Stadium and Call Street. Limited press parking will be available by RSVP in a parking lot located off Call between the College of Medicine and the Psychology Building. Additional parking is available in the parking garage at Stadium Drive and Spirit Way. For more about FSUCares, visit http://www.med.fsu.edu/students/FSUCares/default.asp. Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=504 Feb. 10, 2011 The Florida State University College of Medicine on Friday will host “Sexuality and Aging,” an event geared toward senior citizens. The event is part of the geriatrics department’s “It’s Never Too Late to Learn” series that brings medical students and elders together in activities to promote active lifestyles leading to positive health outcomes.   More than 150 Tallahassee senior citizens, several dozen medical students, including members of the Geriatrics Interest Group, and nearly a dozen community health organizations and sponsors will participate. Among the organizations taking part are the Tallahassee Senior Center, The Area Agency on Aging for North Florida, Thagard Student Health Center, Bond Community Health Center, Department of Elder Affairs, Big Bend Cares Clinic, Pepper Institute on Aging, Leon County Health Department and Homes Instead Senior Care.   The event includes free health screenings, demonstrations related to sexuality and aging, and a presentation by Dr. Lisa Granville, professor and associate chair of the department of geriatrics at the College of Medicine. It will be held:   FRIDAY, FEB. 11 10 A.M.-1 P.M. FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE     CONTACT: Doug Carlson (850) 645-1255; doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu   Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=501 CONTACT: Marshall Kapp (850) 645-9260; marshall.kapp@med.fsu.edu By Ron Hartung February 2011 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Making health-care choices for another adult is a role no one really wants but anyone might get. A new publication for Florida residents just made that role a little easier. The booklet, “Making Medical Decisions for Someone Else: A Florida Handbook,” is based on one created in 2006 by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging. The ABA offered it as a template for states to adapt. At the Florida State University College of Medicine, the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law seized that opportunity. “I did my own research on relevant Florida law, and I also sent out a draft for comments to the Florida Hospital Association, the Florida Medical Association, the state long-term-care ombudsman, the Bio-Ethics Network of Florida, the ABA commission and others,” said Marshall Kapp, director of the Medicine & Law Center, who has posted the completed handbook at www.med.fsu.edu/?page=innovativeCollaboration.home. “It basically deals with planning for incapacity at a time when medical decisions may need to be made and you won’t be able to make them for yourself anymore,” Kapp said. “It also deals with the rights and duties of the substitute decision-makers.” The 20-page booklet uses plain language to walk decision-makers through their new role. It alternates between encouragement (“Anxiety is normal”) and advice (“The aim is to choose as the patient would probably choose, even if it is not what you would choose for yourself”). One theme the booklet stresses is the importance of communicating with the patient, when possible, and learning what he or she prefers. To assist in that process, the booklet includes a two-page quiz. The quiz instructs decision-makers to answer the questions as they think the patient would answer them; have the patient answer them; and then compare and discuss the two sets of answers. Charles Sabatino, director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging, said that for most people, serving as a health-care substitute decision-maker comes as a surprise. “They don’t realize that it's a serious and difficult job until they are pulled into it in a crisis,” he said. “And unlike most jobs we take on, there are very few educational resources out there to train us for that role. The guide fills a deep gap in resources.” Only three other states have versions of the ABA guide so far: Maryland, New Hampshire and North Dakota. Because of its elder population, Florida especially needs such a guide, Kapp said. In addition, he noted that Florida was home to the Terri Schiavo case. Schiavo, a St. Petersburg resident, was in a coma from 1990 to 2005. The state and nation were divided by the legal battle that raged between her husband and her parents over whether Schiavo would have wanted to be kept alive through a feeding tube. Eventually the courts, the Florida governor and even the U.S. president were involved. The Schiavo case was high-profile and important, Kapp said, but it was very much the exception. “A big part of why a booklet like this is important,” he said, “is that in the vast majority of circumstances there can be a meeting of the minds that is reached, and ultimately things can be done on the basis of consensus rather than conflict. We ought to be educating both professionals and the public in a way to avoid future Schiavo cases.”   Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsPubs.readNewsPub&id=532 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://issuu.com/fsumed/docs/60232_fsu_view_book_medical?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://issuu.com/fsumed/docs/127577_fsumed_final_web?mode=window&pageNumber=1