Florida Atlantic University and Broward Health connected Monday announced a concern statement that volition supply world medicine to Broward County, and opportunities to collaborate successful the areas of education, objective grooming and practice, wellness services medication and research.
The groundbreaking concern was announced by Shane Strum, president and CEO of Broward Health, during its State of the System code recognizing the system’s 85th anniversary.
As portion of the collaboration, FAU and Broward Health program to research opportunities for associated probe and assistance astatine the pupil and module level, assemblage engagement, fundraising opportunities, and integrating world medicine, archetypal wrong the mounting of the system’s safety-net hospital. Safety-net practices are defined by the Institute of Medicine arsenic “those providers that signifier and present a important level of wellness attraction and different needed services to uninsured, Medicaid and different susceptible patients."
“Florida Atlantic University and Broward Health stock a communal imaginativeness and intent of providing high-quality and compassionate aesculapian care, stellar education, and lifesaving probe adjacent to home,” said Brad Levine, chair, FAU Board of Trustees. “This collaboration makes america portion of a captious web successful Broward County that connects america with a spouse that volition alteration america to attraction for our community.”
Students successful wellness sciences enrolled astatine FAU volition person entree to physicians and objective facilities wrong Broward Health acknowledgment to this agreement.
“We invited opportunities for collaboration to grow our wellness attraction network, supply lifesaving aesculapian services, and importantly, bid the adjacent procreation of physicians who volition service our communities with compassion, integrity and highly skilled care,” said Strum. “As the archetypal statutory teaching infirmary successful Broward County, partnerships similar this 1 guarantee we proceed to physique the skilled doc workforce our portion needs portion gathering the wellness attraction needs of our communities today.”
Established successful 1938, Broward Health is 1 of the 10 largest nationalist wellness attraction systems successful the United States. A nationally recognized wellness strategy successful South Florida, Broward Health boasts 2 trauma centers and virtually each wellness specialty, offering compassionate, personalized attraction crossed its 4 hospitals and much than 50 wellness centers and doc practices. As a person successful precocious wellness attraction for much than 85 years, Broward Health has a robust postgraduate acquisition programme and planetary services.
“FAU’s Schmidt College of Medicine is simply a aesculapian schoolhouse of the assemblage and for the community, said Julie Pilitsis, M.D., Ph.D., dean and vice president for aesculapian affairs, FAU Schmidt College of Medicine. “We are precise excited to articulation forces with our partners astatine Broward Health to enactment world medicine astatine the forefront of our community. With an accent connected teamwork and collaboration, unneurotic with our partners, we volition code the needs of our assemblage and heighten our workforce successful health-related fields.”
The Schmidt College of Medicine has been autarkic since 2011, and prides itself connected grooming doctors for the community. Together with the FAU Health Network – including each 10 colleges astatine FAU – the aesculapian schoolhouse works to guarantee the workforce of time and cutting-edge exertion and innovation.
FAU’s Schmidt College of Medicine has already made invaluable contributions to the doc workforce, which has dynamically impacted and diversified the attraction of its communities. An mean of 50 percent of the aesculapian school’s graduated aesculapian residents and fellows enactment connected to signifier successful Florida.
Florida is expected to beryllium abbreviated astir 18,000 physicians by the twelvemonth 2035. Only 13.1 percent of physicians successful Florida are 39 years aged oregon younger, whereas 38.4 percent are 60 and older. Thus, the workforce shortage volition apt beryllium exacerbated by a precocious status complaint and debased incoming complaint of caller physicians.
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