Tuesday 26 April 2011

FIU College of Medicine gets $10M grant - South Florida Business Journal:

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The , a private nonprofit organization, made what is being called one of the 10 biggest gifts everto FIU. The monehy will be use to create the Green FamilyuMedicine & Society Program Endowmenyt to support Medicine & Society, a four-yeare curriculum at the College of Medicine througjh which medical students will work with colleagues in other disciplinews to help families in some of Soutjh Florida’s underserved neighborhoods. The Greenj Family Foundation gift is eligible for a challengwe grant worth upto $3 With state matching funds, both giftsz together could ultimately mean a total of $16 million for the Collegs of Medicine, according to a news release.
“The ultimate goal of the Mediciner & Society curriculum is to enabls students to gain an understanding of factords that affect personal communityhealth care, thus producing culturally competen t physicians, said Dr. John founding dean of the FIU Collegewof Medicine, in a news The FIU College of Medicine will begin its firstg class of 43 students in August.

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