Reliable Anatomy of a Medical School: Florida State University College of Medicine – Orlando Regional Campus The central mission of this medical school is to prepare compassionate doctors to provide patient-centered medical care. Students spend their first two years at FSU’s main campus in Tallahassee learning basic science. They then move to one regional campus for their final two years of clinical training. The college has been growing since it was established in 2000. Three regional campuses opened in 2003: Pensacola and Orlando. The colleges have opened additional regional campuses in Sarasota (2005), Daytona Beach (2007) and Fort Pierce (2008) to accommodate third and fourth-year students (240 annually). The country of 21.5 million is served by 1,500 clinic faculty. In Immokalee, 90 minutes east of Naples (Fla), the college opened a rural clinic-training facility in 2007. Third- and fourth-year students can complete elective or required rotations at the site. This is in line with the medical school’s mission to serve the medically poor. Third-year rural college students can spend an academic year in Marianna (Fla) and Georgiana (Ga) (the college’s rural pathway). Florida State University College of Medicine seeks to graduate outstanding physicians who practice patient-centered, evidence-based medicine, and advance research and respond to their communities’ health needs, with a special emphasis on elders, minorities, or rural people. The Pre-Mediation of Clinician-Patient Relationship
