Signing Ceremony and
News Conference to Announce
Regional Academic Medical Center Agreement
An historic agreement to be signed by Florida Atlantic University, the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and Boca Raton Community Hospital will create a Regional Academic Medical Center that could change the face of health care in Palm Beach County -- and throughout the state of Florida.
The agreement will go a long way toward alleviating an expected physician shortage in Florida by expanding undergraduate medical education, and most importantly by increasing graduate medical education, or residencies.
WHO: Florida Atlantic University President Frank Brogan, University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala, UM Miller School of Medicine Dean John G. Clarkson, and Boca Raton Community Hospital President and CEO Gary Strack.
WHAT: The leaders will sign and talk about the new agreement to establish a Regional Academic Medical Center in Palm Beach County. The agreement calls for expanding the 2-year University of Miami Miller School of Medicine program on the campus of FAU to a full four-year medical school track, with students doing their clinical rotations at Boca Raton Community Hospital.
Currently, medical students attend their first two years at FAU, and then come to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital for their final two years. In addition, the agreement will establish a graduate medical education program, or residencies, at Boca Raton Community Hospital. The University of Miami Medical Group will establish a clinical faculty practice on the regional campus with at least 50 physicians representing various specialties.
WHEN: 11 a.m. Friday, February 17
WHERE: Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Science Center,
777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
WHY: The state’s mandate to expand medical education without the expense of creating new medical schools and the anticipated physician shortage in Florida are both driving forces behind this new agreement.
