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Sep 13, 2010
Sarasota Herald Tribune
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A new medical school model is providing quality physicians for Florida communities. This is an experiment that began only five years ago here. But early indications suggest that the Florida State College of Medicine's regional campuses and unconventional teaching methods are not only meeting the school's goal of producing primary care physicians who will practice in Florida communities -- but also consistently generating that elusive commodity every patient looks for: a really good doctor.

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Sep 13, 2010
Kaiser Health News
Medical School students facing a new reality
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One of the groups most affected by the changes in the new health law are medical school students. When they graduate – and complete the hospital residencies that follow – they will begin practice under a system that will be significantly different than when they began college. With millions more people expected to have health insurance, demand for primary care physiciansis expected to go way up. Allison Fero, of Kaiser Health News, recently sat down individually with four medical students, including Marco Ferrera of The Florida State University College of Medicine, to discuss their career expectations, their concerns about the changing environment for doctors and their assessments of how the new law will affect the practice of medicine.

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Sep 13, 2010
HeraldTribune.com
Sarasota campus demonstrating that Florida State’s model works
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Paola Dees, M.D., shown here as a medical student in 2006, is among the residents and physicians quoted in a Sarasota Herald-Tribune story detailing how well the College of Medicine’s distributed model produces top-notch doctors.

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Sep 10, 2010
Tallahassee Democrat
Florida State University honors area physicians
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Florida State University's College of Medicine paid tribute Thursday to two area physicians who are among the hundreds of community doctors playing an important role at the 10-year-old school. Dr. James "Trey" Falconer, with the MacIntosh Clinic in Thomasville, Ga., was presented with the "guardian of the mission" award for his work with third- and fourth-year students. Dr. Jesse Judelle, who has been with the Southern Medical Group adjacent to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital since 1972, received the "outstanding clinical faculty educator" award.

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Sep 07, 2010
Darrell G. Kirch
Toasting the past, embracing the future
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View the Webcast Celebrate with us by viewing a College of Medicine premiere and hearing a dynamic speaker "What if we thought of academic medicine as a fully loaded Boeing 747, taking off down an undetermined length of runway? Are we so focused on preserving the excellence we have built, that we find ourselves waiting until the last possible moment to lift off into what will be a dramatically changed health care future? And by lingering on the runway, are we missing opportunities that might allow us to use our unique capacity to lead?" Those are the attention-getting words of Darrell G. Kirch, in the July issue of the AAMC Reporter. As president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, he spends an extraordinary amount of time pondering the future of medical education and health care in America. On Oct. 7 he will be here, discussing the College of Medicine's pioneering role in that future. Kirch will be keynote speaker at the Oct. 7 celebration of our 10th anniversary as the first new medical school of the 21st century. The title of his address is “Defining the Century: Florida State University and the Future of Health Care.” Also on the program is the premiere of a 20-minute video charting the extraordinary creation of the College of Medicine. People who have little patience with most public speakers say without hesitation that Kirch is dynamic and memorable. Anyone who is connected with the College of Medicine will want to hear what he has to say about this time in history, this profession and this school. We hope to pack the auditorium. Arrangements also are being made for people at our regional campuses to tune in his speech from their location. This will be an unforgettable way to wrap up our 10-year anniversary. Please plan to participate. Date: Thursday, Oct. 7
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Place: College of Medicine main campus, 1115 W. Call St. in Tallahassee, and at various venues for our regional campuses
RSVP or questions: 850-645-9428 or alexa.vonstaden@med.fsu.edu 

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Sep 02, 2010
WCTV News
Why does anxiety target women more? FSU researcher awarded $1.8M to find out
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Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj was recently awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the sex differences in anxiety. Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be. That is one of the preliminary findings in the lab of Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj, associate professor in the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the sex differences in anxiety.

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Sep 02, 2010
Softpedia
Anxiety as a feminine feature
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Scientists wondered why is it that women tend to be more anxious than men, and they found out that a possible cause might be the level of testosterone. Florida State University researcher and associate professor in the College of Medicine, Mohamed Kabbaj, was recently awarded a five-year $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, to carry out a research on sex differences in anxiety.

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Sep 01, 2010
Florida State University College of Medicine
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PRESS RELEASE Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be. 
That is one of the preliminary findings in the lab of Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj, associate professor in the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the sex differences in anxiety. His research team also is working to identify the role of a gene called zif268.

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Aug 23, 2010
The-Dispatch.com
Stroke Center launches teleneurology program
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Thomasville Medical Center's Stroke Center has added a new tool in responding to emergency stroke and critical neurology care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, as part of the new teleneurology medicine program with Forsyth Stroke & Neurosciences Center and the Novant Neurosciences Network Solution. The new program will link Thomasville Medical Center and Specialists On Call (SOC), a Joint Commission-accredited organization of board-certified, specialty trained, community and university neurologists. SOC neurologists have a minimum of 10 years in clinical practice and include nationally recognized physicians affiliated with departments of neurology at world-class medical centers, including The Florida State University College of Medicine.

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Aug 20, 2010
Florida State University College of Medicine
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Watching 120 students put on coats might not sound like a memorable Friday night. But if those are new medical students slipping into physician’s white coats, and if the audience is filled with the people who love them, then suddenly it’s an unbeatable event. It’s called the White Coat Ceremony, and the College of Medicine’s Class of 2014 got to experience it August 20th. White Coat Ceremony Speeches: John P. Fogarty, M.D., Dean, The Florida State University College of Medicine [pdf] Robert Watson, M.D., Executive Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs [pdf] Curtis C. Stine, M.D., Associate Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health Director of Clinical Programs [pdf] Komal R. D'Souza, Class of 2011 [pdf]    

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