Goals of the SJBSM
- Provide a medical education for the 21st century, with graduates well-trained in integrated and team based care, ethics, and outcome standards to optimally manage the care of individuals and entire communities.
- Integrate the disciplines of medicine and public health in medical education to enhance the connection between prevention, promotion and treatment of disease and improve population health.
- Cultivate translational research by creating collaborative alliances among basic scientists, clinical faculty and community practitioners.
- Maintain and enhance the use of information technology as a tool for teaching, research, performance measurement, and enhancing communication within the school of medicine and surrounding communities.
- Continue to reinforce the diverse network of clinical settings for clerkship rotations and hands-on training to strengthen students’ clinical skills, cultural competency and health systems management.
- Maintain an institutional environment that is conducive to and supportive of interprofessional education, research, academic freedom, life-long learning, and a culture of quality improvement.
- Recruit and retain outstanding, culturally and linguistically diverse faculty, students and staff and recognize their contributions to the school of medicine.
- Enhance the school’s image as an institution committed to advance community medicine, excellence in primary care, public health and nursing.
- Continue to manage the school resources with fiscal responsibility and explore new avenues for expanding funding sources.
- Develop a system to accurately evaluate measurable outcomes of medical education, public health and nursing.
- Enhance efforts to keep-on attracting students form diverse backgrounds and create partnerships in order to increase diversity among applicants.
