120 students per class, and shall be phased in from 30 students in the Program in
Medical Sciences (PIMS), to 40 students admitted to the College of Medicine as
the charter class in Fall 2001, and 20 additional students admitted to the College
of Medicine in each class thereafter until the maximum class size is reached.
(5) PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS FOR CLINICAL INSTRUCTION;
GRADUATE PROGRAMS.—To provide broad-based clinical instruction in
both rural and urban settings for students in the community-based medical education
program, the College of Medicine, through creation of nonprofit corporations,
shall seek affiliation agreements with health care systems and organizations,
local hospitals, medical schools, and military health care facilities in
the following targeted communities: Pensacola, Tallahassee, Orlando, Sarasota,
Jacksonville, and the rural areas of the state. Selected hospitals in the target communities
include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) Baptist Health Care in Pensacola.
(b) Sacred Heart Health System in Pensacola.
(c) West Florida Regional Medical Center in Pensacola.
(d) Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare in Tallahassee.
(e) Florida Hospital Health System in Orlando.
(f) Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Sarasota.
(g) Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.
(h) Lee Memorial Health System, Inc. in Fort Myers.
(i) Rural hospitals in the state.
The College of Medicine shall also explore all alternatives for cooperation with
established graduate medical education programs in the state to develop a plan
to retain its graduates in residency programs in Florida. To this end, the Florida
State University is directed to submit to the Legislature, no later than November
30, 2001, a plan to increase opportunities for Florida medical school graduates
to enter graduate medical education programs, including residencies, in the state.
(6) ACCREDITATION.—The College of Medicine shall develop a program
which conforms to the accreditation standards of the Liaison Committee on
Medical Education (LCME).
(7) CURRICULA; CLINICAL ROTATION TRAINING SITES.—
(a) The pre-clinical curriculum shall draw on the Florida State University’s
Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS) experience and national trends in basic
and behavioral sciences instruction, including use of technology for distributed
and distance learning. First-year instruction shall include a lecture mode
and problem-based learning. In the second year, a small-group, problem-based
learning approach shall provide more advanced treatment of each academic subject
in a patient-centered context. Various short-term clinical exposures shall be
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