Medical Education Update
                         2003 SOM Retreat
               Major Accomplishments 2002
       • Developed a highly productive working relationship between the Faculty 
         Senate and the Dean’s office
       • Made important headway in establishing a new curriculum for 
         September 2003 with agreed objectives to:
          – Better integrate basic and clinical sciences (translational curriculum)
          – Develop and foster student scholarship and community activism
       • Created a committee on evaluation and advising with major objectives:
          – To review and improve evaluation process
          – To ensure faculty and student engagement in the evaluation and advising 
           process
       • Developed new advising program for students.
                              
                       Medical Education Update
                            2003 SOM Retreat
                       Objectives for 2003
        • Curriculum
           – Institute first year of the new curriculum 
           – Institute scholarly concentrations
        • Develop mechanisms to facilitate and foster teaching
           – Improve existing education support
           – Fund raising for teaching
           – Changing the “culture” of medical education 
        • Develop CME program
           – Financial solvency
           – Proactive service to the Stanford community and beyond
                                  
                             Medical Education Update
                                    2003 SOM Retreat
                      Proposed curricular structure
                                    Undergraduate
                                                           Basic science
                   Clinical research    Molecular medicine
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                    Medical Education Update
                         2003 SOM Retreat
             Salient features of new curriculum
       • New courses
          – Fundamentals of molecular sciences (first year)
          – Advances in applied biomedical sciences (second year; with grad 
            students)
       • Eliminated biochemistry and molecular biology
       • Decreased classroom time
       • Utilize new technologies (anatomy, nutrition)
       • Better sequencing
       • Allied clinical sciences with basic sciences
       • Longer school year
       • Clinical clerkships start earlier
                               
                       Medical Education Update
                            2003 SOM Retreat
              Salient features of new curriculum
        • Required basic science curriculum to be added to 
          previous “clinical years”.  Some strategies:
           – Required courses
              • Clinical research, health care financing
              • Applied genomics
           – Selective courses
           – Embedded science within clerkships
              • Enhanced orientations
              • Basic science attendings/basic science clerkship
              • Required student assignments