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ARCHBOLD, FSU MEDICAL SCHOOL JOIN FORCES |
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Clinical Training to Take Place at Thomasville Hospital
The Florida State University College of Medicine is joining forces with
Archbold Medical Center in an agreement through which a number of medical
students will receive their clinical training in Thomasville, Ga.
College of Medicine Dean J. Ocie Harris today announced that Archbold and
the college have signed an affiliation agreement that allows FSU's third-
and fourth-year medical students to train at the Thomasville hospital.
FSU medical students will begin clinical rotations at Archbold next July.
"It gives us great pleasure to welcome Archbold to our system of
affiliates," Harris said. "Archbold has an outstanding regional reputation,
an 80-year legacy of service to the region, excellent facilities and
top-notch doctors, and we know they will provide wonderful learning
opportunities for our students."
"We are very proud to be able to provide a site for clinical training in
collaboration with the FSU College of Medicine," said Archbold Medical
Center President Ken B. Beverly. "We've been very impressed with the
educational program the college has put together, and this joint effort is
certainly in line with other strategic alliances we have with other area
colleges and schools that are helping solve the problem of health manpower
shortages across this region."
Practicing physicians at the college's affiliated institutions and in
doctors' offices throughout the region will train students in each of eight
required clinical areas - family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics,
surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, geriatrics, psychiatry and emergency
medicine - as a well as other specialties offered as fourth-year electives.
With the addition of Archbold Medical Center, the FSU College of Medicine
has affiliation agreements with 14 hospitals and hospital systems. All are
in Florida except Archbold, which is the college's only clinical training
affiliate in Georgia.
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