2017 annual report - Florida State University College of Medicine

THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS
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REWARDED FOR COMPASSION
AND EMPATHY
THANK YOU AGAIN,
CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY
In 2017, eight more College of Medicine students
benefited from the generosity of the Capital Medical Society
Foundation.
They were (as pictured in the photo, from left) Ciara
Grayson (Class of 2021); Kaylee Denmark (2021); Brian
Bowden (2020); Quinn Frier (2020); Whitney Basford
(2021); Breanna Jameson (2019); Collin Lamba (2019);
and Saira Bari (2019).
“Attending medical school is a very expensive proposition
these days,” said Tallahassee pediatrician Frank Walker, head
of the Scholarship Committee. “My fellow physicians and
I are pleased and proud to help support medical students
who have not only a financial need, but a desire to stay and
practice medicine in Florida.”
The scholarships flow directly from the proceeds of the
Capital Medical Society Foundation’s annual Holiday Auction
in December.
Executive Director Pam Wilson said the foundation has
provided a total of $528,489 in scholarships to medical
students over the past 30-plus years. Even though the College
of Medicine wasn’t established until 2000, its students have
received the vast majority of those scholarships – $501,000.
“I grew up seeing firsthand what a medically underserved
community looked like, and I have been dedicated to serving
communities like the one that helped shape me into the person
I am today,” a grateful 2017 recipient wrote in a letter to the
foundation. “Thank you so much for investing in me and
supporting me in my path to making this dream become a reality.”
For the second year, 10 students were recognized with
scholarships in 2017 for the way they relate to patients.
This is known as the Chapman Humanism Scholarship. If
science is on one side of the medical coin, then humanism is
on the other. Humanism is the art of medicine, the heart of
medicine. It’s the quality you instinctively sense when you say,
“I want THAT person to be my family’s doctor.”
Half of the 2017 honorees come from the Class of 2019:
Shelbi Brown (also chosen in 2016), Sam Cook (also chosen
in 2016), Charlie Ingram, Cory Nonnemacher and Stephanie
Rolon Rodriguez.
The other half come from the Class of 2020: Nicholas
Adams, Paige Blinn, Arjith Rathakrishnan, D’Andre Williams
and Stephanie Williams.
The College of Medicine’s standardized patients played a
key role in nominating these students.
The Chapman Humanism Scholars Fund was established
in 2015 by the Jules B. Chapman, M.D., and Annie Lou
Chapman Private Foundation.
(l-r) Arjith Rathakrishnan, College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty,
Stephanie Williams, D’Andre Williams, Paige Blinn, Professor Robert
Watson, Cory Nonnemacher and Nicholas Adams.