Student Handbook - College of Medicine - Florida Atlantic University

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE CHARLES E. SCHMIDT COLLEGE OF MEDICINEThe Mission of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine is to create and sustain an environment ofprofessionalism, scholarship, intellectual enquiry and inclusiveness that enables our faculty and students to achievetheir respective goals as health care professionals and biomedical scholars who are recognized by their colleaguesfor their professional excellence and by the communities in which they live and work for their involvement andcommitment to the health and well-being of their fellow citizens. The College of Medicine is committed to playing apivotal role in achieving the following critical goals: (1) producing physicians who are prepared to provide the highestquality health care, and (2) producing scientists at the forefront of basic, applied and translational biomedicalresearch, including physician-scientists who can meet Florida’s biomedical research and medical faculty workforceneeds.GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF THE CHARLES E. SCHMIDT COLLEGE OF MEDICINEWe are committed to providing a medical education program, in partnership with our hospital affiliates, that: enables our students to become active, self-directed, life-long learners equips our graduates to effectively treat the patients that they are most likely to encounter in their practices demonstrates FAU’s commitment to inclusiveness through the recruitment of a diverse body of students,faculty and staff produces physicians with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and self-awareness required to practice effective,humanistic, patient-centered, evidence-based medicine in an increasingly diverse healthcare environment emphasizes the centrality of collaborative relationships in the provision of the highest quality comprehensivehealth care fosters and values collaboration between basic and clinical science, among medical specialties and betweenacademic medicine and community health care professionalsWe are committed to providing graduate programs in the biomedical sciences that: produce scientists at the forefront of biomedical research and scholarship promote collaborative, inter-disciplinary and innovative approaches to research and inculcate our studentswith the ability to think creatively are responsive to business and industry needs for individuals with scientific training and expertiseDEFINITIONSBelow is a list of definitions that will be used throughout the College of Medicine Student Handbook.AAMCACGMECDCCOMERASFacultyFAFSAFAUFERPAHIPAAAssociation of American Medical Colleges, non-profit organization that includes U.S. andCanadian medical schools; teaching hospitals, health systems, and academic and scientificsocieties and represents faculty, medical students and residents.Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, accredits residency programs andinstitutions such as hospitals and medical schools that sponsor residency programs.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Abbreviation for College of Medicine, refers to Florida Atlantic University Charles E. SchmidtCollege of MedicineElectronic Residency Application Service, which is an AAMC service that transmits residencyapplications, personal statements, letters of recommendation, Medical Student PerformanceEvaluations or Dean’s letters, medical school transcripts, board exam scores, and other supportingcredentials from applicants and medical schools to the fellowship and residency programs theprospective student selects using the Internet.Refers to the members of the faculty of the Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine.Free Application for Federal Student Aid.Florida Atlantic UniversityFamily Education Rights and Privacy Act, as amended from time to time.Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended from time to time.2