A person PM'ed me and asked me a bunch of questions because they were trying to decide between schools. They are reposted below with my reply. Forgive any typos. I replied on a tablet. I did add to certain areas, but didn't remove anything.
1) What regional campus are you at? What is the role of the regional campus sites? Do you attend classes there? Meet up with other medical students?
Pensacola. They are a central location for FSU med events. Wednesday's of third year we have doctoring lectures there (mandatory). They also are used for studying if need be. Time spent there is minimal relative to rotations. During residency application stuff, the campus staff are the ones that play the support role. It is an advantage because you have an entire team for 20 students writing your letters and helping you out. Many other schools have generic form dean's letters.
Whether we hang with other med students depends on the personality of the class and that campus. My campus spends a lot of time together, whereas my classmates in Orlando and Daytona don't seem to hang out much. (They may correct me on this, since I'm only going by word of mouth)
2) FSU stresses that clerkships are one-on-one with attendings. Has this been your experience? How have your rotations been? Do you feel like you are acquiring strong skills because of the one-on-one experience? Do you feel like you are missing out on the medical school experience because you are not at a large teaching hospital?
My experience has been good. Nearly all of my attendings have been fantastic and let me do a ton. I feel like it is a good experience. I haven't done the other style, so I can't say comparatively how I'd feel. I don't feel like I am missing much of anything by not being at a teaching hospital. They are a lot of hype, but you are fighting to do stuff behind a line of interns, residents and fellows. I got to be first assist for all surgeries...not many schools can claim that. Med school is about getting good at the basics. While seeing the crazy pathology every day is fun, it isn't (or shouldn't) be the goal of undergraduate medical education. Either way, I've scored very well against all med students at all schools taking the exam for each rotation, so it obviously didn't affect my fund of knowledge.
My attendings are who I model myself after. I look up to all of them (even the one who was a bit of a jerk). I still swing by their offices and visit them when I can and feel comfortable talking to them about almost anything. I played tennis with my surgery attending, got coffee and listened to music with my psych attending, and chased/play with my family med attending's kid when she was trying to wrap stuff up. My chronic care family med doc even asked if I had ps3, so we could play modern warfare 3.
3) What are the sites clinical sites like? Are your experiences mostly in hospitals or private clinics? Inpatient or outpatient?
Once again, this is dependent on where you are. At Pensacola, there are 3 medical systems your attending may be assigned to. They are all very nice. The doctor's offices range in their relative quality, as well as how they are ran. How much time you spend in the hospital is based on your attending. FSU does tend to have a lot more outpatient than most schools. Certain rotations are the exception, such as surgery and OB/GYN. I do personally wish for more inpatient experience, but I've learned a ton regardless.
During 4th year there is "advanced internal medicine" for 4 weeks, which is all inpatient. There is also a required advanced family medicine which CAN be at a residency program, but may be in a rural locale. Emergency Medicine is required 4th year, which is obviously at the hospital. Geriatrics is...geriatrics. Other than those specialties, you have a little more say in how you schedule, so you get to spend more time in the hospital if you wish.
4) What has been the best part of your clerkship experience? Worst?
This is tough to answer...dealing with death isn't fun, nor is losing the ability to create your own schedule. All schools have bs that is a pain. Best part is that time flies and you get to learn/do clinical things rather than memorizing HLA types or biochem pathways. You get to organize all that material jammed in your head and feel like a doctor. It still amazes me that I'm halfway through my third year. I remember the first time in the anatomy crystal clear. Heck, I remember where I sat for my first orientation lunch and what tie I was wearing.
Clerkships can be amazing/awful/fun/exhausting all wrapped into one. The hardest thing to get used to is that you are no longer graded objectively. Attendings evaluate how you perform. Sure, you need to get a certain percentage of shelf exams to Honor, but the bulk of the grade is how someone else thinks you perform. This experience is more intuitive to some people than others. I've personally found it much easier to build a relationship with the people around me. I don't think it has anything to do with introversion versus extroversion. I'm an introverted computer geek and get very nice comments from my attendings and patients. (If you looked at my desk right now, you'd see my big 23 inch LED display, macbook, lenovo, tablet, iphone, ipod, wireless laser printer and tons of other tech junk)
5) And, last, what drew you to FSU? If you had to do it all over again, would you still have chosen FSU?
I would choose FSU again. You do have to accept that they are a primary care oriented school, so you will have more focus on that. It does not mean you must go primary care (I'm going into radiology most likely). I was drawn here because of instate tuition, heavy support network from my parents and the school, very friendly family atmosphere, deans and professors that want to improve things, relatively non-competitive and laid back students. Is it perfect? No, but I am very happy with my decision overall and don't have a lot of the complaints a lot of kids have from their schools. FSU is fantastic at adjusting to the students' needs. They are so good at it, we are more likely to get frustrated when there isn't a response.
: http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=alumniFriends.whereTheyMatched
I mean, is that sort of thing really a big issue at other schools? 
FSU's the favorite so far! 
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End of World??? haha
