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The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Board of Directors and the Florida State University College of Medicine today announced plans to pursue a joint internal medicine residency program for the Big Bend region. The Tallahassee Memorial and Florida State University Internal Medicine Residency Program would be housed at Tallahassee Memorial’s main campus and The Florida State College of Medicine would be the institutional sponsor. The program could begin accepting applications for resident physicians as early as fall 2011.

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Until now, the only residency program option for students graduating from Florida State's College of Medicine was family medicine, but that's about to change. A new partnership between Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and FSU's College of Medicine hopes to keep graduates here by introducing n internal medicine residency program. The residency program will be established by 2012 and many graduates of the college of medicine say this residency program is long overdue.

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Press Release After a national search, The Florida State University College of Medicine has hired Ricardo J. Gonzalez-Rothi, M.D., as professor and chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences.

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Press Release The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Board of Directors and the Florida State University College of Medicine today announced plans to pursue a joint internal medicine residency program for the Big Bend region.

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John Leonard Franklin, MD John Leonard Franklin, MD, 41, of Kingsport, Tennessee, passed away suddenly on August 5, 2010. He attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences. Upon graduation, he entered the University of Florida's PIMS (Program in Medical Sciences) Program in Tallahassee, Florida, for 1 year and then completed his medical degree with honors at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

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School-based health centers, which provide comprehensive medical care to students beyond the standard school-nurse clinic model, are awaiting a big boost from the federal government under the law overhauling the nation’s health-care system. Dr. Maggie Blackburn, the director of rural health for the Florida State University College of Medicine, in Tallahassee, said the capital-improvement money could help the system open a new clinic in Havana, Fla., a town of 1,700 about 16 miles northwest of
Tallahassee.

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A total of 120 new medical students formally received their white coats Aug. 20 at Florida State University – and one of them was from Gadsden County.

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PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program at Sacred Heart Women’s Hospital was recently awarded a $3,000 Community Awards Program grant from the Florida Chapter of the March of Dimes. The goal of the community awards program is to identify and fund community?based programs addressing the health concerns of pregnant women in the state of Florida.

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The refinement of the definition of retirement continues as Americans continue to age. In a new nationwide poll of older adults, ages 65 to 80, shows that over 80% of them view their retirement will be different and more exciting than their parents retirement. The Vi Next Chapter study examines the expectations and self perception of what the respondents are looking towards or experiencing in their retirement. Kenneth Brummel-Smith, MD, Charlotte Edwards Maguire, Chair, and Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Florida State University is featured.