Newswise — FT. LAUDERDALE-DAVIE Fla. — Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) medical school announced it recently received a 5-year, $1 million federal grant to educate medical residents to provide expert care for patients living in rural and underserved communities.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant will be used to develop training programs for NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine’s affiliated medical residency program at Larkin Community Hospital in Miami.
Lasting between three to seven years, medical residencies are required training for medical school graduates to become board-certified physicians. In affiliation with NSU’s medical school, Larkin has18 residents in family medicine.
The HRSA grant will create curriculum and clinical training in medically underserved communities, which include rural and urban areas where physicians and medical services are scarce. The money will also be used to develop training in other areas such as all hazards preparedness, genomics, and medical informatics.
One of the grant’s goals is to encourage more primary care residents to become practicing physicians in these underserved areas. Research has shown that medical schools who receive this grant have produced more doctors who end up practicing in such areas.
“There is no reason why residents living in medically underserved communities should receive a lower quality of care then everyone else,” said Joseph De Gaetano, D.O., M.S.Ed., associate dean for clinical curriculum and graduate medical education at NSU’s medical school. “The HRSA grant will help us deliver care to those who need it the most.”
Last month, NSU’s medical school expanded its affiliated medical residency programs in South Florida thanks to Congressional legislation championed by U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL). The affiliated hospitals where the expansion took place are Broward General Medical Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah, Miami Children’s Hospital in Miami, and Mt. Sinai Medical Hospital in Miami Beach.
About NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine: For students pursuing their education at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM), the matriculation experience has proven to be both challenging and rewarding. By combining the most contemporary teaching modalities with the newest technology, our students are assured of obtaining the most comprehensive education possible. Thanks to the synergistic energy of our students, faculty members, and staff members of all of our programs, the pursuit of excellence has become a daily reality at NSU-COM.
About Nova Southeastern University: Located in Davie, Florida, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is a dynamic fully accredited Florida University dedicated to providing high-quality educational programs of distinction from preschool through the professional and doctoral levels. NSU has more than 29,000 students and is the seventh largest not-for-profit independent institution nationally. The University awards associate’s, bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, specialist, and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields, including business, counseling, computer and information sciences, education, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, dentistry, various health professions, law, marine sciences, early childhood, psychology and other social sciences. Classified as a research university with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, NSU was also awarded Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification in 2010 for the University’s significant commitment to and demonstration of community engagement. For more information about Nova visit www.nova.edu.
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