Please let us know your ideas and suggestions for this new communication format. Previously, the total number of facilitator slots required were apportioned to the clinical and basic science departments based upon total faculty FTEs. The new plan will look at institutionally funded faculty FTEs as a basis for allocating facilitator slots to departments and will give credit to faculty for their lecture hours, lab teaching time and for the tremendous amount of effort put into the educational program by the course directors. To begin a comprehensive review of all third and fourth year courses, several task forces, under the direction of the Curriculum Committee, will be constituted from members of the School of Medicine. Each task force will address a theme that runs longitudinally through years three and four of the curriculum.
Broad representation is important.
This is an important new program designed to further the academic career of the faculty member and enhance the abilities of the faculty member to contribute to the diverse missions of the University. Faculty who are selected will receive support for their salary and benefits for a 6 month, on or off-campus faculty development leave. Applications will be reviewed by a special committee on Faculty Development Leaves. Faculty members selected to receive a Presidential Faculty Development Leave will be notified by mid April. Dr. McGovern, a Houston physician and philanthropist, is a lifelong scholar of Sir William Osler who was a proponent of the integration of scientific and humanistic principles in the practice and teaching of medicine.