Budget crunch hits Florida’s medical schools

February 11th, 2008 | Category: Florida Politics Blog

The state leaders who embraced new multimillion-dollar public medical schools in Orlando and Miami insisted their creations would not decrease Florida’s investment in existing medical schools.

But two years later, Florida’s public university system is losing tens of millions of dollars considering of a statewide revenue shortage. And the state’s oldest public medical school is in trouble with national accreditors considering

its state funding has dropped as enrollment climbed - leaving its lecture halls and student clinical facilities overcrowded. As the legislative session nears, UF and University of South Florida officials are lobbying tough to build certain their decades-old medical schools don’t suffer so the newer ones can flourish. Read more here.

Original post by Jennifer Liberto

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