the Science Students Together Reaching Instructional Diversity and Excellence
(SSTRIDE), and shall build an endowment income to support recruitment programs
and scholarship and financial aid packages for these students. To develop
a base of qualified potential medical school candidates from underrepresented
groups, the College of Medicine shall coordinate with the undergraduate premedical
and science programs currently offered at the Florida State University,
develop relationships with potential feeder institutions, including 4-year institutions
and community colleges, and pursue grant funds to support programs, as
well as support scholarship and financial aid packages. The College of Medicine
shall develop plans for a postbaccalaureate, 1-year academic program that provides
a second chance to a limited number of students per year who have been
declined medical school admission, who are state residents, and who meet
established criteria as socially and economically disadvantaged. The College of
Medicine shall make every effort, through recruitment and retention, to employ
a faculty and support staff that reflect the heterogeneous nature of the state’s general
population.
(11) TECHNOLOGY.—To create technology-rich learning environments, the
College of Medicine shall build on the considerable infrastructure that already supports
the many technology resources of the Florida State University and shall expand
the infrastructure to conduct an effective medical education program, including connectivity
between the main campus, community-based training locations, and rural
clinic locations. Additional technology programs shall include extensive professional
development opportunities for faculty, an on-line library of academic and medical
resources for students, faculty, and community preceptors, and technology-sharing
agreements with other medical schools to allow for the exchange of technology applications
among medical school faculty for the purpose of enhancing medical education.
The College of Medicine shall explore the opportunities afforded by Mayo
Clinic in Jacksonville through clerkships, visiting professors or lectures through the
existing telecommunications systems, and collaboration in research activities at the
Mayo Clinic’s Jacksonville campus.
(12) ADMINISTRATION; FACULTY.—Each of the major community-based
clinical rotation training sites described in subsection (7) shall have a community
dean and a student affairs/administrative officer. Teaching faculty for the community-based
clinical training component shall be community physicians serving parttime
appointments. Sixty faculty members shall be recruited to serve in the basic and
behavioral sciences department. The College of Medicine shall have a small core staff
of on-campus, full-time faculty and administrators at the Florida State University,
including a dean, a senior associate dean for educational programs, an associate dean
for clinical education, a chief financial/administrative officer, an admissions/ student
affairs officer, an instructional resources coordinator, a coordinator for graduate and
continuing medical education, and several mission focus coordinators.
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