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Dr. Kenneth Brummel-Smith, Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor and Chair, Department of Geriatrics at the Florida State University College of Medicine, will share insights and talk about what can be improved in health-care reform.

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The latest research and information concerning health care for older adults will be on the agenda at the 11th Annual Geriatrics Health Care Symposium, sponsored by the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine in the University of Louisville School of Medicine. 
Two keynote sessions kick off the day's agenda. At 8 a.m., the 11th Annual Irving B. Perlstein Gerontology Lecture will feature Kenneth Brummel-Smith, M.D., addressing "Rehabilitation of the Older Patient." Brummel-Smith is the Charlotte Edwards Maguire professor of geriatrics and the founding chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Florida State University in Pensacola

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Denmark journalist and author Lone Frank will be speaking about "Science: The Great Changer of Minds" at 3 pm Sunday at the Florida State University College of Medicine Auditorium, Room 1400. The conversation will focus on the two emerging revolutions affecting science and culture: genetics and neuroscience.

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Third-year student Alyson Lewis, from the Daytona Beach Regional Campus, is one of five med students to provide insights about a desire to practice primary care for this feature on CNNMoney.com. Read corresponding article from CNNMoney.com: Med students rush to primary care programs  

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PRESS RELEASE 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. Current LCME Accreditation Standards

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In addition to being St. Patrick's Day, Thursday was national Match Day at medical schools across the country, the festive event when fourth-year students learn where they will spend the first three — or four — years of their lives as physicians. 
FSU's young College of Medicine — celebrating its 10th anniversary this year — is preparing to graduate its seventh class, and its first at full capacity. The Class of 2011 is sending 114 soon-to-be doctors to residency programs at dozens of medical centers across the country. Also featured at FSU.com. FSU College of Medicine announces residencies for 2011 graduating class [pdf] Also featured at WCTV.tv. FSU Med Students Meet Their Match [pdf] Video [wmv] Also featured at WTXL.com. Medical students find out residency location [pdf] Video [wmv] 

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PRESS RELEASE 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. For information about FSU’s Match Day history, visit http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfmpage=alumniFriends.whereTheyMatched 
To see where past College of Medicine graduates are practicing, visit http://med.fsu.edu/alumni/alumni.aspx?class=2005

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PRESS RELEASE 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, March 17. The ceremony also will be webcast live. Visit http://www.med.fsu.edu/ for more information.  

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Leslie M. Beitsch, MD, director of the Center for Medicine and Public Health at Florida State University College of Medicine, comments on the long-term risks of radiation leakage in an article focusing on Japan's radiation scare.

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Ken Brummel-Smith, chair of the department of geriatrics at the Florida State University College of Medicine, said that essentially, you are only as old as you feel. "You can't have an expectation based on age," Brummel-Smith said. With regard to health issues that come up later in life, everyone is different, so the way health problems affect people is different. In the work place, it is not so much a person's disability that is the issue, he said. "It's can they do the job."