Goals and Objectives:
- Provide medical education, 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, physician assistant, nursing and public health in medical education to enhance the connection between prevention, promotion and treatment of disease and improve population health.
- Cultivate community engagement and community-based experiences by creating collaborative alliances with public and private agencies.
- Cultivate translational, clinical, behavioral and academic 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, faculty development and enhancing communication within the school and surrounding communities.
- Continue to reinforce the diverse network of clinical and community sites for rotations and hands-on training to strengthen students’ clinical skills, research, public health, cultural competency and health systems management.
- Maintain an institutional environment that is conducive to and supportive of uni-professional/interprofessional education, life-long learning, research, students’ services, and a culture of continuous quality improvement.
- Recruit and retain outstanding, culturally and linguistically diverse faculty, students and staff in order to increase diversity and recognize their contributions to the learning environment.
- Continue to manage the school resources with fiscal responsibility and explore new avenues for expanding funding sources.
- Develop a system to accurately evaluate the academic and non-academic measurable outcomes of medicine, public health, nursing and physician assistant academic programs.
