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MEDICAL EDUCATION QUALITY
ORLANDO
PENSACOLA
Back in
we welcomed our first class of students, so
Our campus has been working to expand students rural In the spring we moved into our new building on the campus experience in partnership with Citrus County government, of the University of West Florida. The facility is state-of-the-art this year we took the opportunity to honor more than
physicians of the Florida Wellcare Alliance, local hospitals and provides a great venue for our medical education program. our founding faculty members for their
and community leaders. Tremendous progress was made as
We re adjacent to the UWF Department of Health,
of
years of service.
Since opening the campus, we have partnered with the
which contains schools in athletic training, nursing, Escambia County Medical Society to provide students a
The Citrus County Commission voted to remodel the exercise science, health sciences, health promotion, medical firsthand look at organized medicine. This year we were able
previous Crystal River firehouse into , laboratory science and psychology. This represents a to organize a room-naming ceremony to formally acknowledge
of housing that accommodates four to six students at a tremendous opportunity for us to develop interdisciplinary the medical society s generosity in creating an endowment
time. Construction was completed early in December. training and enhance the student experience. to provide perpetual funds for student scholarships.
these groups came together as one to support the initiative
s uare feet
Paul McLeod, M.D., campus dean, med.fsu.edu/Pensacola
Community leaders agreed to furnish the facility and
work to raise dollars to support ongoing costs to run
and maintain it.
Over
physicians have been recruited as FSU
College of Medicine clinical faculty.
The demographics of Citrus County align closely with
the college s mission Its population is rural with a large
elder and underserved demographic. Medical and physician
assistant rural rotation assignments in Citrus County will
begin in February and March
Also in
.
, Orlando clerkship faculty member Doug
Meuser, M.D., was named the Florida Academy of Family
Physicians Exemplary Part-time Educator of the Year.
Doug is truly the teacher s teacher, making all of us strive
to be better at our own jobs, wrote one faculty nominator. A
student wrote It was through Dr. Meuser that I could see
myself in a family physician s shoes.
Finally, on a personal note I ll be retiring as dean May
,
. So it will be a year of farewells and transitions as the
Orlando campus continues to train tomorrow s physicians.
Michael Muszynski, M.D., campus dean, med.fsu.edu/Orlando
Among those present at the Escambia County Medical Society room-naming ceremony were, from left, Clerkship Director Hillary Hultstrand,
M.D.; Dean Paul McLeod, M.D.; Erica Huffman; Joanne Bujnoski, M.D.; clerkship faculty member Jennifer Miley, M.D.; and Wayne Willis.