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The Central Florida college has joined in the growing trend of medical schools across the country that are providing advanced mobile devices to medical students. Florida State University also gives iPod touches to med students, and Stanford University in California is distributing much-larger Apple iPads to its future doctors.   

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In 2000, Florida State University bucked conventional wisdom to start an unconventional medical school. Thursday, the Treasure Coast contingent of the faithful gathered at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce to commemorate the school’s 10th anniversary.

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Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, will help the Florida State University College of Medicine celebrate its 10th anniversary Thursday. Kirch will deliver a webcast keynote address from the College of Medicine’s main campus in Tallahassee as part of a simultaneous celebration with the College of Medicine’s Fort Pierce Regional Campus.

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Older adults with Parkinson’s disease as well as those without neurological problems are at increased risk of injury-causing falls when walking and talking at the same time, a study shows. Researchers at Florida State University say Parkinson’s disease alters gait, stride length, and step velocity. It also alters the ability of older people to stabilize themselves on both feet when asked to perform increasingly difficult verbal tasks while walking. A surprising finding of the study was that even older adults who do not have a neurological impairment also have trouble walking and talking at the same time. The study is published in the October issue of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. “These results suggest that it might be prudent for health care professionals and caregivers to alter expectations and monitor cognitive-linguistic demands placed on these individuals while they are walking, particularly during increased risk situations, such as descending stairs, in low-light conditions, or avoiding obstructions,” study researcher Charles G. Maitland, MD, of Florida State University’s College of Medicine, says in a news release.

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The Fort Pierce campus of Indian River State College is celebrating its 50th anniversary. One of the most significant facilities on the campus is the Brenda and Vernon Smith Center for Medical Education, a branch of the Florida State University where the university’s medical students come to complete their training to become doctors.

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In recent human trials for a promising new class of drug designed to target the hepatitis C virus (HCV) without shutting down the immune system, some of the HCV strains being treated exhibited signs of drug resistance. In response, an interdisciplinary team of Florida State University biologists, chemists and biomedical researchers devised a novel genetic screening method that can identify the drug-resistant HCV strains and the molecular-level mechanisms that make them that way –– helping drug developers to tailor specific therapies to circumvent them. Florida State biology doctoral student Feng Yang led the research team. The award-winning scholar earned her Ph.D. in August 2010 and is now a postdoctoral associate at Yale University. Yang designed the CoFIM screening methodology with fellow FSU graduate students, postdoctoral associates and distinguished faculty colleagues –– including Associate Professor Tang; chemistry/biochemistry Professor Timothy M. Logan, director of FSU’s Institute of Molecular Biophysics; and Research Assistant Professor Ewa A. Bienkiewicz, of the FSU College of Medicine, where she directs the Biomedical Proteomics Laboratory. Also featured on: 9/29/2010 - Hepatitis C Research and News Blogspot 9/30/2010 - RedOrbit.com

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One of the most significant facilities on the campus is the Brenda and Vernon Smith Center for Medical Education, a branch of the Florida State University where the university’s medical students come to complete their training to become doctors.

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Press Release A new Florida State University study found that older adults with Parkinson’s disease altered their gait — stride length, step velocity and the time they spent stabilizing on two feet — when asked to perform increasingly difficult verbal tasks while walking. But the real surprise was that even older adults without a neurological impairment demonstrated similar difficulties walking and talking.
A disruption in gait could place Parkinson’s patients and the elderly at an increased risk of falls, according to the Florida State researchers.