Academics

ARCHI is collaborative research hub of core faculty representing the fields of Sociology, Gerontology, Demography, and Public Health along with a vibrant group of graduate student trainees. The program is dedicated to shared empirical research, training/mentoring, extramural funding, and policy and applied projects. We meet 1-2 times per month to critically discuss work-in-progress, presentations, funding/fellowship proposals, or to engage in professionalization or formal training. ARCHI is housed in the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and affiliated internationally with the Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3) graduate training program. 

The overall mission of this fellowship program is to provide rigorous training and practical experience to prepare individuals for careers as independent researchers in academia, private industry, and government. The Postdoctoral Program is housed in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine (BSSM) at FSU College of Medicine and is part of FSU Health, which aims to transform how communities access world-class health care and measurably improve health outcomes.

Behavioral and psychological aspects of healthy aging constitute a specific area of concentration that can be chosen for this fellowship program.

The certificate program has a focus on advanced practice, adult acute care nursing as a specialty area. A multi-theoretical model is used to examine issues relevant to acute care delivery and complex illness throughout the adult’s life span. The program prepares students to provide expert, critical care to patients; they will be educated through online class work, laboratory time, and clinical rotations to care for acutely ill patients in the hospital. The program also includes simulation exercises structured to specifically train students in diagnosis and treatment of the critically ill. Technical and procedural skills required to work in an ICU setting are also taught.

This graduate concentration area trains students to develop expertise on health over the life course and aging-related topics such as medical sociology, changes in psychological, functional, and cognitive health, stress and stressful exposures, families, social epidemiology, and health and aging-related data and methodologies.

Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is comprehensive, interdisciplinary care for patients with advanced, progressive, life-threatening illnesses and their families. The Florida State University Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Sarasota Memorial Hospital is designed to educate fellows to provide expert palliative care to diverse populations. The fellowship also provides fellows with the skills required to disseminate the principles of palliative medicine by providing a broad exposure to all aspects of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

The Fellowship Program prepares fellows to become outstanding, compassionate board-certified hospice and palliative physicians, able to provide excellent care to patients with advanced illness.

The residency program prepares the graduate for a career in general internal medicine, primary care, hospital medicine or a subspecialty. All residents are taught how to perform comprehensive geriatric assessments and how to identify and manage important geriatric syndromes. Training locations include assisted living, long term care facilities, rehabilitation centers, and patients' places of residence. Residents complete Geriatric rotations in conjunction with FSU Department of Geriatrics and Big Bend Hospice. Residents can also take a palliative care elective. The program offers training on aging physiology, dementia, and older patient management.