The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Bylaws Reviewed February 2020 1 Table of Contents Organizational Structure and Governance .................................................................................... 3 Academic Departments ............................................................................................................................. 3 Medical Faculty Executive Committee .......................................................................................... 5 Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee ............................................................................................ 6 Biology Chairs and Center Directors ............................................................................................. 7 Health Affairs Coordinating Committee (HACC) ......................................................................... 8 BioMed Space Policy Committee ................................................................................................... 9 Biomed International Affiliations Committee (BIAC) Charter .................................................. 15 Continuing Medical Education (CME) Advisory Committee ..................................................... 16 Brown Council for Diversity in Medicine .................................................................................... 17 Office of Women in Medicine and Science ................................................................................. 18 Care New England Affiliation Committee ................................................................................... 19 Lifespan Affiliation Committee .................................................................................................... 20 Providence Veterans Affairs Dean’s Committee ......................................................................... 21 AMS Admissions Committee ........................................................................................................ 22 AMS Admissions Office ................................................................................................................ 25 Medical Curriculum Committee ................................................................................................ 26 Subcommittees ........................................................................................................................................ 29 The Curriculum Refinement, Innovation, and Strategic Planning - Continuous Quality Improvement Committee (CRISP-CQI) ................................................................................................................................... 30 Subcommittee on the Program in Educational Faculty Development (PEFD) ............................................. 31 Committee on Diversity and Inclusive Teaching and Learning (CDITL) ....................................................... 32 Administrative Policy Committee ...................................................................................................................... 33 Clerkship Directors Committee .................................................................................................... 34 Medical Committee on Academic Standing and Professionalism (MCASP) ............................. 36 Committee on the Learning Environment (COLE) ..................................................................... 39 Student Support Group ................................................................................................................. 41 Faculty Appointments and Promotions ....................................................................................... 43 Appendices: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Faculty Handbook Warren Alpert Medical Student Handbook MD/PhD Student Handbook 2 Organizational Structure and Governance The Division of Biology and Medicine (composed of the Warren Alpert Medical School [AMS] and the Program in Biology) is led by the Senior Vice President of Health Affairs and Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences. This individual reports to the President and Provost of Brown University. Within the University Corporation, which governs the entirety of Brown University, the Division is overseen by the Brown Medical School Corporation Committee. The governing body of the Division of Biology and Medicine (composed of the Medical School and the Program in Biology) is the Biomedical Faculty Council. The Council reviews and formulates recommendations on academic policy matters, and interdepartmental and supra-departmental affairs, often after consultation with its standing committees. Academic Departments The Division of Biology and Medicine is home to five basic biology departments, fourteen clinical departments and two hybrid departments (comprised of both basic science and clinical faculty). Each department is administrated by a chair, who serves a five-year term and is appointed by the Provost on the recommendation of the Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences. The basic biology departments are: • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology • Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry • Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology • Molecular Microbiology and Immunology • Neuroscience The clinical departments are: • Anesthesiology • Dermatology • Diagnostic Imaging • Emergency Medicine • Family Medicine • Medicine • Neurology • Neurosurgery • Obstetrics and Gynecology • Orthopedics • Pediatrics • Psychiatry and Human Behavior • Radiation Oncology • Surgery 3 The hybrid departments are: • Pathology and Laboratory Medicine • Medical Science 4 Medical Faculty Executive Committee The Medical Faculty Executive Committee (MFEC) serves as a central steering committee for the hospital-based faculty of the Warren Alpert Medical School. The MFEC charge includes matters of particular concern to the medical faculty including grievances The MFEC membership includes faculty representatives from all of the health systems that are part of the Medical School. Ex-officio members of the committee include the Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences, the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, the President of the University (or a representative), and representatives from the administration of each hospital or hospital system. The rules governing the composition of MFEC are as follows: The Vice-Chair must be elected from the faculty at large. The Vice-Chair shall be a faculty member at senior rank (Associate or Full Professor). The elected member would join MFEC for a term of three years, with Year 1 as Vice-Chair, Year 2 as Chair, and Year 3 as Past-Chair. The duties of the Vice-Chair include the following: learn duties from the Chair, advise the Chair and assist with goal implementation, learn to navigate the Brown system, and establish goals for the following year as Chair. The duties of Chair include the following: set goals of the MFEC, establish committees, and train the Vice-Chair for the position. The duties of Past-Chair are as follows: provide “institutional memory” and continuity for the MFEC, advise Chair and Vice- Chair, and assist with goal implementation. MFEC membership should include 15-20 faculty (exclusive of Deans and ex-officio members), which includes three officers (Vice-Chair, Chair, Past-Chair). The Nominations Subcommittee of the MFEC will solicit nominations from voting faculty members at large for open positions on the MFEC. The committee will make every attempt to ensure that candidates on the electoral slate are distributed across the four faculty tracks: Research, (Research), Teaching, and Undeclared. Hospital affiliation and department will be important factors in developing the electoral slate. The Nominations Subcommittee will work to ensure fair and broad representation. This plan was developed with two goals: 1) to provide a widely dispersed faculty with fairly easy access to a committee member, and 2) fair representation across a variety of faculty characteristics. 5 Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee The Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee (CFAC) shall serve as the primary representative committee for the Clinical Faculty (that is, those faculty members in the Clinician Educator and Clinical tracks). It shall address matters that are of concern to the Clinical Faculty, and have the opportunity to review policies and procedures of the medical school relating to appointments, reappointments, and promotions of the Clinical Faculty and to make recommendations to the Dean or designee when necessary. The CFAC will make recommendations to the Dean or designee concerning recognition of the Clinical Faculty for exemplary service to the Alpert Medical School. It shall provide consultation to the MFEC concerning grievances of or relating to the Clinical Faculty. There shall be three officers (Chair, Vice-Chair, and Past-Chair) and thirteen faculty members. The Dean or designee shall attend meetings of the CFAC as an ex-officio member. A Subcommittee on Nominations will be established by the CFAC. The Dean reserves the right to review the membership of the CFAC. Every other year, a Vice-Chair shall be elected by a plurality of the thirteen members from a slate proposed by the Subcommittee on Nominations and will serve a term of two consecutive years. At the end of this term, the Vice-Chair will then serve a two-year term as Chair of the CFAC, and then another two-year term as Past-Chair. 6 Biology Chairs and Center Directors Charge The Biology Chairs