Goals and Action Items
Continuously adapt our curriculum to prepare medical students for excellence as future physicians
- Develop a complementary education strategic plan to outline process improvements and adaptations for the medical education curriculum
- Track evolving changes to ensure continuous quality improvement in the medical education curriculum
Foster a culture of respect and humility that reaffirms our core values
- Partner with the School of Medicine Curriculum Council and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to develop a longitudinal anti-bias, anti-racism curriculum framework that will prepare students to care for diverse patients more effectively
- Develop and implement a plan to assess students’ ability to demonstrate cultural humility and respect for all patients and colleagues
Address the health and wellness of students through institutional and program-level well-being initiatives
- Track the type and number of initiatives
Improve the learning environment
- Develop an enhanced system for centralized reporting, tracking and addressing mistreatment incidents
- Create a system to acknowledge exemplars of professionalism
Ensure trainees acquire the knowledge and skills, based on the latest evidence-based medical advancements, to become the next generation of attending physicians
- Track American Board of Medical Specialties exam pass rates and the percentage of programs with a pass rate greater than or equal to 90%
Improve the learning environment by empowering residents and fellows to raise concerns without fear of retaliation or other adverse impacts
- Track responses to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) resident survey question about the ability to raise concerns without fear of intimidation or retaliation
- Achieve better than national average on completion rates for this question
Address the health and wellness of trainees through institutional and program-level well-being initiatives
- Track the number of wellness initiatives
- Perform above the national mean on more than half of the 12 questions on the ACGME well-being survey
Promote diversity, equity and inclusion through intentional and ongoing educational programming
- Track the number of DEI forums
- Track responses to the ACGME resident survey question about fostering an inclusive work environment and achieve better than national benchmarks on completion rates for this question
Modernize and strengthen the portfolio of graduate programs to prepare students for contemporary research and clinical careers in health sciences
- Assess training programs in comparison to peer institutions
- Align graduate programs with other contemporary programs nationally and with broader research and training initiatives in the school
- Increase NIH fellowship grant (F award) applications and successful submissions
Enhance the learning environment to support the career aspirations of basic health sciences graduate students
- Enhance student career development by strengthening partnership with VCU Career Services to offer programs and resources to students
- Expand system for reporting, tracking and addressing concerns in the training environment
- Strengthen admissions, recruitment, education and retention of graduate students through inclusive policies, programs and practices
Provide professional development and other training opportunities to faculty to enhance the educational outcomes of students
- Provide mentor training to faculty advisers
- Strengthen teaching techniques through training to enhance instructional delivery
- Train program directors on mental health awareness and support