When Dr. Suzanne Harrison traveled to the ninth annual Campus Community Partnerships for Health national conference in Minneapolis, she brought along something few other institutions had with them: students.

Harrison, assistant professor in the department of family medicine and rural health, is accustomed to helping students gain access to learning opportunities outside the classroom. She created a teaching clinic at Refuge House for battered women, where students learn more about domestic violence and the psychosocial factors affecting women’s health.

At the CCPH conference second-year students Nikita Wilkes and Jessica Fowler and first-year student Shannon Hill helped present a poster about the Refuge House clinic. Viewers awarded the College of Medicine delegation, which included former Refuge House assistant director Maureen O’Neil, third place in the poster section of the conference.

“Other conference participants were so impressed that medical students from Florida State were involved and participating in activities of this sort,’’ Harrison said. “Only a couple of other institutions brought students along. Jessica, Niki and Shannon were poised, professional and great representatives of the College of Medicine.’’

Wilkes communicated to conference participants the impact learning opportunities at Refuge House have had on her medical education.