Content: 1) Changed discipline from single choice to multiple choices option.
2) Added student comments for community faculty.
3) Added hospital affiliations/privileges section in faculty profile page.
4) Removed vision and mission from training site form.
5) Order discipline and specialty by alphabetical order.

Content: CBE Coordinators: This information was found on the Texas State Board of Medical Examiner's Website. Here is the link: http://wwwtsbme.state.tx.us/rules/rules/162.htm#1621

The ruling about preceptors needing faculty appts. follows:

Supervision of Medical School Students
Chapter 162.1‑162.3

162.1 Supervision.

162.1. Supervision.

Effective January 1, 2004, only Texas licensed physicians who hold at least a clinical faculty appointment at a Texas medical school may supervise a medical student who:

(1) is enrolled at a Texas medical school;

(2) is a student at a medical school located outside Texas and is enrolled as a visiting student at a Texas medical school; or

(3) will receive supervised medical education in a Texas hospital or teaching institution sponsoring or participating in a program of graduate medical education accredited by the Accrediting Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association, or the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners in the same subject as the medical or osteopathic medical education in which the hospital or teaching institution has an agreement with the applicant's school.

Effective November 30, 2003.