Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #784 Jacksonville Medical Education Programs
Requester:	Ray Norton		Organization:		Shands Jacksonville Medical Center, Inc.
Project Title:	Jacksonville Medical Education Programs		Date Submitted:		01/25/2000 10:50:22 AM
District Member:	Betty Holzendorf		Service Area:		Statewide
Counties Affected:	Duval
Recipient:	UF Health Science Center/Jacksonville Campus		Contact:		Robert Norton
	655 W. 8th Street		Contact Phone:		(904) 549-3002
	Jacksonville 32209
Project Description:
The University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville is comprised of the Jacksonville based faculty students of the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry and the Borland Health Center Library. The educational programs sponsored by these colleges are closely aligned with the University Medical Center, a State -designated, statutory teaching hospital and a major teaching affiliate of the University of Florida. The faculty plays a major role in the education of health professsionals in each of these colleges, e.g 20% to 25% of the studetns in the third and fourth year classes, 25% of the Physican Assistant students, and 276 graduate medical students of the University of Florida College of Medicine are based in Jacksonville at any given time. The University of Florida educational program in Nurse Midwifery is based principally at the University of Florida Health Center Jacksonville. The Oral Surgery program sponsored by the College of Medicine and the College of Dentistry combines the resources of the Jacksonville and Gainesville campuses into a single entity. A high percentage (ranging from 53% to 75% depending on the class) of students completing the primary care medical education programs of the University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville remain in Florida to begin careers a health care professionals. The 5 million in this allocation will, therefore, be used to defray costs of faculty, support staff, and equipment to maintain the important work of the only academic health center in northeast Florida. This funding will allow the faculty of the University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville to continue its important mission of education, discovery, and service to all the citizens of the State of Florida.
Services Provided/Benefit to State:
Maintain medical and health professional graduate training
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Consistent availability of program graduates
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:				$5,000,000
Total cost of the project:		$5,000,000

Request has been made to fund:			Operations
Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?					No
Was this project previously funded by the State?					No
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?					Yes
	Amount:	$5,000,000
	Purpose for future year funding:			YesNon-recurring Construction
	Will this be an annual request?				Yes
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?					Unknown
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?					Unknown
Is there a documented need for this project?					Yes
	Documentation:	Current Underfunding of Programs
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?					Yes
	Hearing Body:	Duval Legislative Delegation
	Meeting Date:	01/13/2000