Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64B8 - Board of Medicine › Chapter 64B8-15 - STANDARDS FOR CERTIFICATION OF FOREIGN MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS › Section 64B8-15.009 - Resources for the Educational Program

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Finances. The substantial cost of
				conducting a certified educational program leading to the M.D. or equivalent
				degree must be supported by sufficient financial resources. Dependence upon
				tuition must not cause schools to seek enrollment of more students than their
				total resources can accommodate and provide with a sound education
				experience.
(2) General Facilities.
				A medical school must have, or be assured use of, buildings and equipment that
				are quantitatively and qualitatively adequate to provide an environment
				conducive to high productivity of faculty and students. Wide geographic
				separation between facilities may reduce the effectiveness of the educational
				program. The facilities must include faculty offices, student classrooms and
				laboratories, appropriate facilities for students, offices for administrative
				and support staff, and a library. Access to an auditorium sufficiently large to
				accommodate the student body is desirable. The school should be equipped to
				conduct biomedical research and must provide facilities for humane care of
				animals when animals are used in teaching and research.
(3) Faculty.
(a) Members of the faculty must have the
				capability and continued commitment to be effective teachers. Effective
				teaching requires knowledge of the discipline, and an understanding of
				pedagogy, including construction of a curriculum consistent with learning
				objectives, subject to internal and external formal evaluation. The
				administration and the faculty should have knowledge of methods for measurement
				of student performance in accordance with stated educational objectives and
				national norms.
(b) Persons
				appointed to faculty positions must have demonstrated achievements within their
				disciplines commensurate with their faculty rank. It is expected that faculty
				members will have a commitment to continuing scholarly productivity, thereby
				contributing to the educational environment of the medical school.
(c) In each of the major disciplines basic to
				medicine and in the clinical medical sciences, a sufficient number of faculty
				members must be appointed who possess, in addition to a comprehensive knowledge
				of their major disciplines, expertise in one or more subdivisions or
				specialties within each of these disciplines. In the clinical sciences, the
				number and kind of specialists appointed should relate to the amount of patient
				care activities required to conduct effective and intensive clinical
				teaching.
(d) In addition,
				physicians practicing in the community can make a significant contribution to
				the educational program of the medical school, subject to individual expertise,
				commitment to medical education, and availability. Practicing physicians
				appointed to the faculty, either on a part-time basis or as volunteers, should
				be effective teachers, serve as role models for students, and provide insight
				into contemporary methods of providing patient care. The quality of an
				educational program is enhanced by the participation of volunteer faculty in
				faculty governance, especially in defining educational goals and
				objectives.
(e) There must be clear
				written policies for the appointment, renewal of appointment, promotion,
				retention and dismissal of members of the faculty. The appointment process must
				involve the faculty, the appropriate departmental heads and the dean. Each
				appointee should receive a clear definition of the terms of appointment,
				responsibilities, line of communication, privileges and benefits; and policy on
				practice earnings, if applicable.
(f) The education of both medical students
				and graduate physicians requires an academic environment that provides close
				interaction among the faculty members so that those skilled in teaching and
				research in the basic sciences can maintain awareness of the relevance of their
				disciplines to clinical problems. Such an environment is equally important for
				clinicians, for from the sciences basic to medicine comes new knowledge which
				can be applied to clinical problems. A medical school should endeavor to
				provide a setting in which all faculty members work closely together in
				teaching, research and health care delivery in order to disseminate existing
				knowledge and to generate new knowledge of importance to the health and welfare
				of mankind.
(g) The dean and a
				committee of the faculty must determine medical school policies. This committee
				typically consists of the heads of major departments, but may be organized in
				any manner that brings reasonable and appropriate faculty influence into the
				governance and policymaking processes of the school. The full faculty should
				meet often enough to provide an opportunity for all to discuss, establish, or
				otherwise become acquainted with medical school policies and
				practices.