Morsani College of Medicine Committees
Academic Performance Review Committee
Committee Charge:
The charge of the Academic Performance Review Committee (APRC) is to review the academic and clinical performance of each medical student and make decisions regarding assessment, advancement, dismissal, graduation, and readmission. It also has the authority to place students on academic warning or probation as well as to design and approve remediation for identified deficiencies.
The APRC will be chaired by the Vice Dean for Educational Affairs, or the Vice Dean’s designee, and will be composed of all required Core and SELECT MD program course/clerkship directors, and seven faculty members who are not course or clerkship directors to be nominated by the Faculty Council, five of these will be from the USF-Tampa campus and two from the USF-Lehigh Valley campus.
Thirteen voting members will be designated for one-year terms. All members should have a voting role during any two-to three-year cycle. Voting members include:
One (1) Year 1 course director
One (1) Year 2 course director Assistant dean for Pre-Clerkship Curriculum
Two (2) Year 3 clerkship directors from USF- Tampa
One (1) Year 3 clerkship directors from USF-Lehigh Valley Chair of the Committee of Clerkship Directors from USF-Tampa Chair of the Clerkship Council from USF-Lehigh Valley
One (1) SELECT program course director
Three (3) non-course/clerkship director faculty members from USF-Tampa One (1) non-course/clerkship director faculty member from USF-Lehigh Valley
When a voting member is not present, an alternate from the same year of the curriculum, or campus site for faculty, will vote as designated. The Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs will serve as ex-officio, non-voting members. All members, voting and non-voting, are expected to attend all APRC meetings in order to contribute to discussion, present information about students with deficiency in their course/clerkship, and maintain familiarity with all committee proceedings.