Minor, Suzanne
- Associate Professor, Humanities, Health and Society , Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Overview
overview
- Suzanne Minor, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician and medical educator serving as the Assistant Dean for Faculty Development at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (FIU HWCOM). In this role, she is expanding and implementing a comprehensive clinical faculty development program in a distributed community model of clinical education consisting of numerous institutions and community sites. Dr. Minor is also overseeing professional development for all faculty at FIU HWCOM. Through educating faculty and students, she strives to cultivate physician resiliency and empower patients. Dr. Minor joined FIU HWCOM in 2010 and was the founding Family Medicine Clerkship Director, crafting and implementing a new curriculum for the clerkship. Additionally, she has been deeply involved in developing full-time and voluntary clinical faculty in multiple domains, including scholarship, pedagogy, and clinical and classroom teaching. Dr. Minor has served as chair of the Steering Committee for the Society for Teachers for Family Medicine (STFM) Group on Medical Student Education and has presented nationally on the topics of the millennial learner; clinical faculty recruitment, retention, and faculty development; home visits as an undergraduate clinical education platform; clerkship director roles and tasks; and mentoring. Peer-reviewed publications include research on family medicine faculty development as well as curricular contributions to the STFM National Clerkship Curriculum Project and narrative medicine pieces in Family Medicine and Pulse. Dr. Minor completed a Family Medicine Residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida and served as Chief Resident. Additionally, Dr. Minor attended the Medical Student Education Development Institute, sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Fellowship.
research interests
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Patient, student, and faculty empowerment
Faculty development
Medical education
Scholarly & Creative Works
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2022Facilitating the Advance Care Planning Conversation with Patients: An Interactive Virtual 1.5-Hour SessionFull Text via DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001385 Web of Science: 000783887700002
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2022Faculty Development Advancements-Lessons Learned in a Time of ChangeFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40670-022-01523-y Web of Science: 000761888100001
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2022Writing Collaboratively in Medical EducationFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40670-022-01503-2 Web of Science: 000746292300001
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2021Strategic Conferencing: Opportunities for SuccessFull Text via DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000004221
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2021Role of Telemedicine in Achieving Good Control of Chronic DiseaseFull Text via DOI: 10.21608/efmj.2021.52907.1056
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2021Abortion Opt-in Experience in Third-Year Clerkship.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/primer.2021.201254
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2020Chronic Disease Management in Sickle Cell Trait Patients in the Primary Care Setting: A Case ReportFull Text via DOI: 10.7759/cureus.11255 Web of Science: 000583185100004
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2020Potential and devotionFull Text via DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009787 Web of Science: 000570092600004
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2019Impact of the Introduction of the Clinical Science Mastery Series on Family Medicine NBME Subject Examination PerformanceFull Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2019.253577 Web of Science: 000484762800011
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2019Community Preceptor Perspectives on Recruitment and Retention: The CoPPRR StudyFull Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2019.937544 Web of Science: 000474355400003
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2019Effect of Repeat Examination on Family Medicine NBME Subject Scores.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/primer.2019.691584
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2019Technology Use to Deliver Faculty Development: A CERA Study.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/primer.2019.520410
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2018A Prenatal Standardized Patient Experience for Medical Students on Their Family Medicine ClerkshipFull Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2018.826159 Web of Science: 000432173700009
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2016Furthering the Validity of a Tool to Assess Simulated Pregnancy Options Counseling SkillsFull Text via DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001624 Web of Science: 000398933100004
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2015Cirrhosis complications: Keeping them under controlWeb of Science: 000358283800007
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2013Allergic rhinitis: What's best for your patient?Web of Science: 000317490100001
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Book Chapter
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Letter
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2021Narrative Medicine in the Time of Pandemics: A Brief Course for Third-Year Medical Students. 817-817.Full Text via DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001322 Web of Science: 000718436500016
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2020Diversity in Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. 1788-1789.Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000003740 Web of Science: 000592283100005
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2020That Clock is Really Big. 154-154.Full Text via DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190258 Web of Science: 000505779100025
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2019Authors' Reply to Goertzen and Zelek regarding "The CoPPRR Study: Community Preceptor Perspectives About Recruitment and Retention". 869-869.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2019.590705 Web of Science: 000495890700018
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Other Scholarly Work
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2021STFM FOUNDATION DEVELOPS WEBINAR SERIES ON ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP. 372-372.Full Text via DOI: 10.1370/afm.2727 Web of Science: 000672728100014
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2020The Day the EMR Went Down. 297-298.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2020.127262 Web of Science: 000523559900012
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2018I've Had Enough!. 629-630.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2018.125741 Web of Science: 000449097600012
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2018What Does It Take to Care?. 230-231.Full Text via DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2018.762603 Web of Science: 000429064300011
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2016Cancer, Tormentor of My Soul, Teacher of My Spirit. 393-394.Web of Science: 000376224100013
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2015A Team Reacts to a Patient's Death. 813-814.Web of Science: 000364984100012
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2015Learned Hopelessness. 58-59.Web of Science: 000348097100011
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2013Not a Nice Way to Die. 658-659.Web of Science: 000325597500011
Contact
full name
- Suzanne Minor
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-5622 (confirmed)
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