President T.K. Wetherell, Dean Ocie Harris, Associate Dean Alma Littles,
Associate Dean Myra Hurt and others at a press conference in February
2005 celebrating full accreditation at last.
(College of Medicine photo archive)
‘WE CAN SUCCEED’: EPIPHANY AT HARVARD MACY
26 | Breaking the Mold
The enemy of innovation is always history and tradition.
That sentence just might be the key to the creation of the Florida State
College of Medicine. I heard it spoken in 1998, when I was a participant
in the Harvard Macy Institute program for innovators in health
education. I was listening to Clayton Christensen talk about his new book, “The
Innovator’s Dilemma,” which had won all sorts of awards that year. The main
point of his book was highly relevant to the likelihood of our success in a new
model of medical education at FSU: The enemy of innovation is always history
and tradition.
I would encounter that truth face to face in 1993, when I took a proposal
to the dean and executive committee of the University of Florida College of