WELCOME
On behalf of Richard S. Baker, M.D., vice dean of Medical Education, we welcome you to the fifth volume of the "You Said, We Did" Newsletter. As a Continuous Quality Improvement organization, the Wayne State University School of Medicine has directly utilized feedback from many of our stakeholders, including students, to make significant changes the last several years. The purpose of the newsletter is to highlight these changes and to celebrate your involvement in these accomplishments. As you prepare to graduate and leave the Wayne State University School of Medicine, we want you know that you are leaving the institution better than when you joined it. One of the goals of this campaign is to let students know that we value their input and are continually incorporating it into our ongoing and new initiatives.
This week's edition: Student Representation
Students are at the receiving end of almost everything that we do so it only makes sense to seek their feedback and have them on key decision-making committees with voting rights. This ensures student input is received in the very early stages of planning new initiatives and policies.
Students have been active members of key committees, including the Curriculum Management Committee. In addition, during the past year we included students as formal members in multiple committees, including the Pre-clerkship Education Subcommittee, the Scholarly Concentrations Planning Committee and the COVID-19 Campus Re-entry Taskforce.
We have been intentional about partnering with students in other initiatives that will impact the student experience in our medical school. This is also an opportunity to list a few positive outcomes of such partnerships:
- Successful launch of our Scholarly Concentrations program earlier this year
- Streamlined scheduling for pre-clerkship years
- Refinements of the restructured curriculum in terms of avoiding conflicting educational commitments
- Successful launch of the Professional, Empathetic, Accountable, Respectful, Leadership and Stewardship, or PEARLS, program, which is aimed at recognizing, rewarding and celebrating positive professional acts by our students
- Reopening campus for student study spaces
- Regularly updating our COVID-19 vaccination database and improving the vaccination status among our students
Partnering with students and co-producing curriculum with students is not new to the Wayne State University School of Medicine as many students have partnered with faculty such as Diane Levine, M.D., associate professor of Internal Medicine, and Jennifer Mendez, Ph.D., associate professor of Internal Medicine and director of Community Engagement, in such efforts. Many such partnerships have resulted in winning national recognition. Our intention is to take that to the next level by having students represented in the design and implementation stages of all improvement and new efforts.
We greatly welcome your thoughts on how to further improve our efforts to partner with students in every area that affects your experience. Please submit your comments to oaacqi@med.wayne.edu
The Wayne State University School of Medicine continues to strive toward a culture of continuous quality improvement and greatly values input from our students. During the next couple of weeks, new editions of “You Said, We Did” will discuss improvements in the following areas:
- Financial Aid/Debt Management
- Academic Advising
- Health and Wellness
- Career Planning
- Social Justice, Diversity and Inclusion
- Professional Development
We want to hear from you
If you have any topics you would like to know about or have suggestions to how we can improve as a medical school, connect via the Warrior Med Suggestion Program.
The purpose of the Warrior Med Suggestions Program is to ensure each stakeholder of the School of Medicine has the opportunity to provide suggestions and feedback that may improve the organization’s mission. This program will serve as the mechanism that will drive the culture of Continuous Quality Improvement within the School of Medicine. These opportunities for improvement will drive cultural change and allow leaders to make a positive impact on a pathway to organizational excellence.
If you have any additional questions or concerns, feel free to reach us at oaacqi@med.wayne.edu. Thank you.
Kanye L. Gardner - Director of Continuous Quality Improvement - Office of Assessment, Accreditation and Continuous Quality Improvement
Volume 1 catalog of issues available here: Volume 1 - #1 - April 8, 2021 | Volume 1 - #2 - April 15, 2021 | Volume 1 - #3 - April 22, 2021 | Volume 1 - #4 - April 29, 2021 | Volume 1 - #5 - May 6, 2021
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Medical Communications