Shands at the University of Florida

College of Medicine Policy on Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Biotechnology Industry Conflict of Interest (1) Definitions. The following definitions apply to this regulation: (a) “COM” means the University of Florida, College of Medicine in Gainesville (the “COM-GNV”) and the University of Florida, College of Medicine in Jacksonville (the “COM- JAX”). (b) “COM personnel” means any employee or appointee of the University of Florida (whether full-time, part-time or courtesy), including but not limited to Academic Personnel (AP), Technical, Executive, Administrative and Managerial Support (TEAMS), University Support Personnel System (USPS), and Other Personnel Services (OPS) employees, who has a COM appointment. Academic Personnel are defined in University…

The University of Florida College of Medicine’s main campus is located in Gainesville, Florida. UFCM was founded in 1956 with the mission to produce competent physicians to provide exceptional health care to the Florida population and to innovate the field of medicine through research. Over five thousand physicians have graduated from UFCM. With twenty-six clinical and basic science departments and nearly a thousand faculty members, UFCM now stands as the largest college at the University of…

build up after surgery. Multiple other forms of medical equipment may be used to help stabilize and monitor the infant’s bodily functions to make it easier for the body to heal. After a few days, the infant is usually transferred to a neonatal or pediatric unit within the hospital. It is common that the infant will have to relearn how to breath and feed since infants who have completed surgery right after birth have learned to rely on ventilators, feeding tubes, and other medical equipment to…

as possible. With this information in mind, I determined that recruiting most be done in an area highly transited so for this research the participant selection occurred at Turlington Plaza at the University of Florida Campus. In order to speed up the recruiting process it was necessary to provide an incentive, chocolate chip cookies, for people to volunteer as participants. It was easier to find younger participants probably because the population of a college campus tends to be younger since…