Dr. Wayne McCormack is the contact person in the College of Medicine for the development of new graduate courses.  He served for three years on the UF Graduate Curriculum Committee, which approves new courses at the University level, so he is familiar with the policies and procedures.  

Links for more info about how the UF Graduate School process works:

New Course & Course Change Procedures:  http://gradschool.rgp.ufl.edu/archived-files/policy-manual-archived-copy.html#3.3.0.0
(Please note that the UCC1 and UCC2 links in this document are out of date.  Please use the links below.)

For a template syllabus with the essential information needed by the Graduate Curriculum Committee for approval of new courses, please use this fillable form:  SyllabusGuidelinesForGCC.PDF

New Course Transmittal form (UCC1):  http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/pdf/ucc1request.pdf

Course Termination or Change Request (UCC2):  http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/pdf/ucc2request.pdf
It is helpful to include a cover memo briefly explaining the justification for the course change, e.g. change from 1 to 2 credits is due to an increase in contact hours from 15 to 30.
A good rule of thumb for figuring out how many credits a course is worth:  ~15 contact hours = 1 credit.

Before you start getting signatures, put together a draft of the UCC-1 form and your course outline, and go over them with Dr. McCormack.  You don't need a complete syllabus in the sense of having faculty assigned to each session, but you do need to include a list of topics for the sessions.  Things the committee looks for include appropriate reading lists and how the students will be assessed and graded.  Use the SyllabusGuidelinesForGCC.PDF.

All new course requests and course change requests now go through an on-line approval process.  Login using your Gatorlink username and password.

last revised 2/13/08  wtm