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Fourth-year Florida State University College of Medicine student Cunyet Ozkardes will be on familiar turf when he begins his residency training at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. As a recipient of Emory's 2023 Open DOOR (Diversity and Opportunity in Ophthalmology Rotations) scholarship, Ozkardes was able to complete an away rotation at the Emory Eye Center and opened his eyes greater career opportunities.
 

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Live Healthy Act, which aims to grow the health care workforce. By 2035 the state is expected to face a shortage of 18,000 doctors.

"The shortage is not getting better, it's getting worse," said FSU College of Medicine Interim Dean Alma Littles, M.D., who grew up in rural Gadsden County. "Around me, I was acutely aware of individuals both in my family, community, my church, etc. who did need health care and were not able to receive it."

The Live Healthy Act does several things, including expanding programs to attract more professionals and adding residency programs.

"We know that if we can have sufficient training programs in Florida, to train them in residency, we are likely to retain them in the State of Florida," Littles said.

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As Florida State University’s College of Medicine celebrated the nationwide event known as Match Day, over a hundred of its graduating medical students got the official word on where they will receive residency training.

Shouts of joy, happy tears and group hugs filled FSU's Ruby Diamond Concert Hall Friday afternoon as students simultaneously tore open their envelopes, reading their letters with loved ones about where they will practice for the next several years in their chosen medical specialty.

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Florida State University is slated to receive nearly $623 million in the Florida Legislature's proposed 2024-2025 budget, which includes a number of specific College of Medicine projects.

Lawmakers are expected to approve and forward the budget to Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday, March 8, closing out the legislative sessions. Beyond its portion from the university's operating allocation, these are some of the specific College of Medicine-related items in the proposed budget:
 

• Institute of Pediatric Rare Diseases ($5 million)
• Autism Institute ($1.48 million)
• FSU Behavioral Health ($525,000)

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Three Florida State University College of Medicine doctoral students were among a cohort of 24 who were celebrated as 2023-2024 recipients of McKnight Doctoral or Dissertation Fellowships at the 38th Annual McKnight Fellows Meeting and Research & Writing Conference in Tampa.

Doctoral candidate Meaghan Navarrete Mathews was honored as a McKnight Dissertation Fellow, while doctoral students Nella Delva and Zenzeale Hudson were recognized as McKnight Doctoral Fellows.

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Throughout Florida and the nation, there’s a significant physician shortage that creates barriers to health care for many. To help meet the demand for new physicians, BayCare plans to increase its residency positions to more than 650 by 2029.

“Here in Polk County, all the programs are academically sponsored by Florida State in collaboration with BayCare and Winter Haven Hospital,” said Nathan Falk, founding family medicine residency director for the FSU College of Medicine program at the BayCare Health System in Winter Haven.

“We first started the family medicine residency program in 2018, and we saw our first class onboarded in the summer of 2020. We graduated our first class in the summer of 2023. Of that first class, we graduated five individuals, and four out of the five stayed here in Polk County to practice, with the fifth one going to Orlando. So all five of them stayed in Central Florida.”