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The UCF College of Medicine aims to be this century’s premier medical school<\/a>. Local tourism officials hope the college and its medical city at Lake Nona will also attract people from around the world. “Medical tourism”<\/a> is not only on the rise but a goal for Central Florida.<\/p>\n

Central Florida hospitals have begun encouraging patients from abroad to come to Orlando for medical treatment. To increase the area\u2019s reputation as a medical destination, Florida cities are also looking to increase their share of the lucrative medical meetings market. Orlando, the nation\u2019s top-ranked medical meeting hub for the past decade, played host to more than 215 medical meetings with 170,000 attendees in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local tourism officials hope the College of Medicine and its medical city at Lake Nona will generate even more interest in Central Florida as a destination for medical meetings.","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[14914],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-medicine"],"yoast_head":"\nSun. Sand. 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