Center for the Advancement of Medical Learning seeks to:
1. Support and promote the development of teaching and lifelong-learning skills among students, faculty, and alumni of Case School of Medicine.
2. Strengthen the culture and value of teaching and learning by supporting, acknowledging and rewarding educational activities and educational scholarship.
3. Sustain and motivate physicians across a continuum of lifelong learning by enabling individualized self-assessment and knowledge and skill acquisition affording measurable improvement in clinical practice.
4. Bring together faculty and staff involved in the advancement of medical education, to facilitate their collaboration and development as a learning community.
5. Support educational innovation and educational research to contribute to our practice and knowledge of medical learning and teaching.
6. Design, implement and evaluate programs for improving the skills of faculty in curriculum design, teaching, assessing, evaluating, advising and mentoring students.
7. Design and implement methods for continuous curriculum evaluation and improvement.
8. Use educational testing, learning assessment methods and effective feedback to improve student learning and promote sound teaching practices.
9. Promote the scholarship of teaching by ensuring that work is disseminated in the public domain; peer reviewed and critiqued according to accepted standards, and built upon by other scholars.
10. Serve as a resource for learning and teaching, including technology in education and consultative services for students and faculty.
11. Promote evidence based decision-making in educational service activities and educational research programs.
12. Pursue funding opportunities in medical education and research.
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