pro School of Medicine will be an academically excellent, innovative, and engaging educational environment for learners and faculty, grounded in scientific method and commitment and service to others.
General Objectives
- Increase our focus on scholarship, learning and the integration of knowledge.
- Establish a state-of-the-art education and interdisciplinary simulation center that will engage, challenge and support students, residents and fellows, faculty, and multidisciplinary and community healthcare providers.
Educational Areas of Focus
- Undergraduate Medical Education
- Graduate Medical Education
- Graduate Student Education
- Continuing Medical Education
Undergraduate Medical Education (UME)
Objectives
- Achieve full accreditation after the 2024-25 LCME visit.
- Improve educational excellence in three pillars: basic, clinical and health systems science.
- Foster a positive and effective learning environment.
- Engage SSM in our teaching and learning mission.
- Increase the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in medical school.
- Decrease student indebtedness.
- Ensure that medical students have the tools and resources to make successful career choices.
- Expand and provide additional clinical experiences for pre-clerkship and clerkship students.
- Increase the number of SOM medical school graduates practicing in our region.
- Increase percentage of accepted students who matriculate to SOM.
- Ensure that graduating medical students are well-prepared for residency.
- Establish a program for faculty development and recognition in medical education.
Strategies:
- Complete data collection and self-study for LCME review.
- Complete LCME site visit.
- Integrate three pillars into curriculum.
- Collaborate with SSM to increase clinical training sites.
- Maximize the post-baccalaureate program.
- Increase scholarships for medical students.
- Increase student recruitment and outreach.
- Structure early career advising for medical students.
- Support specialty advising for students.
- Strengthen the learning community program.
- Increase pre-clerkship active learning and early clinical experiences.
- Continue to revise preclinical curriculum.
- Outreach and admit trainees with mission or regional connection.
- Build a Health Education Center for active learning and multidisciplinary simulation.
- Expand faculty recognition.
- Develop faculty distinction pathways.
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
Objectives
- Transition residencies to “SSM Health/pro” sponsorship.
- Ensure that all residency programs are fully ACGME accredited.
- Align and right-size GME programs with the educational and clinical strategies of the partnership
- Support program director and program coordinator retention.
- Increase faculty teaching skills.
- Increase faculty and trainee scholarship.
- Increase SLU residency graduate retention at SLU, SSM and in the region.
- Increase SLU medical student graduate matriculation into SLU GME programs.
Strategies
- Ensure appropriate number of teaching faculty in collaboration with SSM.
- Ensure appropriate staffing for GME office and programs.
- Effectively address ACGME citations and areas of concern.
- Increase training sites for residents.
- Establish mentorship program for program directors and program coordinators.
- Increase professional development opportunities for GME leaders, faculty, and staff.
- Develop education curriculum and evaluation criteria for faculty.
- Establish the Center for Lifelong Learning.
- Create a GME leadership pipeline.
- Establish a career ladder for program coordinators.
- Provide opportunities for education in research methodologies.
- Establish clinical research mentorship.
- Continue GME taskforce for program size recommendations.
Graduate Student Education
Objectives
- Increase educational opportunities for biomedical Ph.D. students
- Increase educational opportunities for Medical Family Therapy students.
- Increase educational opportunities for post-baccalaureate students.
- Continue M.D. Ph.D. program.
- Increase size of graduate programs.
- Increase enrollment in the post-baccalaureate/Medical Anatomy and Physiology Program (MAPP) program.
- Increase breadth of backgrounds of graduate students.
- Increase graduate student wellness.
Strategies
- Increase research faculty.
- Identify funding opportunities to enable all graduate program growth.
- Increase external funding for biomedical graduate students including RO1, T and F grants.
- Increase Medical Family Therapy class enrollment.
- Increase funded laboratory placements for biomedical graduate students.
- Increase recruitment efforts.
- Include graduate students in SOM-wide wellness programs.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Objectives
- Increase and expand range and quality of CME programs.
- Ensure all relevant standards of accreditation are met or exceeded.
- Build collaborations to enhance the effectiveness of the CME program in addressing community/population health issues.
- Provide Maintenance of Certification (MOC) offerings.