Sandy D’Alemberte, Alma Littles and Mollie Hill at a party celebrating the
10th anniversary of the Class of 2005’s graduation.
(Photo by Colin Hackley)
‘THEY KEPT HAMMERING US’
Alma Littles, chief academic officer at the College of Medicine, interviewed by Myra
Hurt in 2020. Before coming to FSU in 2002, she had been director of the Family
Medicine Residency Program at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital – where PIMS students
and College of Medicine students got some of their training.
One of the things that the accreditors said was, basically, “You don’t have
enough faculty.” We tried to get them to see that our model wasn’t based on
having a huge department of individuals in the same area – because our goal
was to have an integrated curriculum where all the faculty were working together,
utilizing other faculty and small-group teaching. They didn’t all have to be subject
experts in what they were doing because they were facilitating a curriculum that was
centrally developed.
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