Guiding Principles
The School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University will prepare students for the ongoing practice of evidence-based medicine in the rapidly changing healthcare environment of the 21st century. The curriculum will be developed in a framework that is based on the following principles.
- The core concepts of health and disease prevention will be fully integrated into the curriculum.
- Medical education will be experiential and emphasize the skills for scholarship, critical thinking, and lifelong learning.
- Educational methods will be chosen that stimulate an active interchange of ideas among students and faculty.
- Students and faculty will be mutually respectful partners in learning.
- Students will be immersed in a graduate school educational environment characterized by flexibility and high expectations for independent study and self-directed learning.
- Learning will be fostered by weaving the scientific foundations of medicine and health with clinical experiences throughout the curriculum. These scientific foundations include basic science, clinical science, population-based science, and social and behavioral sciences.
- Every student will have an in-depth mentored experience in research and scholarship.
- Recognizing the obligations of physicians to society, the central themes of public health, civic professionalism and leadership will be longitudinally woven throughout the entire curriculum.
- The systems issues of patient safety, quality medical care, and health care delivery will be emphasized and integrated throughout the curriculum.
- Students will acquire a core set of competencies in the knowledge, mastery of clinical skills and attitudes that are pre-requisite to graduate medical education. These competencies will be defined, learned and assessed and serve as a mechanism of assessment of the school’s success.
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