About IME
Innovations in Medical Education is a school-wide education initiative funded by a grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Fund, but the term encompasses more than any single award. Faculty and staff have been engaging in innovations to enhance our curriculum since before the grant was awarded and our efforts will not stop when the grant ends. But this infusion of funds provides us with a unique opportunity to leverage and expand upon these efforts to reach exciting new milestones in the quality medical education we can provide to UWSMPH students.
We are all part of the "Innovations in Medical Education" initiative.
This website offers a forum to communicate about the many ways our curriculum is changing to address the learning needs of students today and tomorrow and the dynamic medical and public health arena where they will play such a critical role. It is also a tool to communicate with you about the wide range of curriculum enhancements and ways of teaching -- those in which our faculty and staff are already engaged and those finding a place on the drawing board. We invite your feedback. We should all have a voice in how these efforts proceed; we all have a stake in their outcome.
New and Noteworthy
- 2007 Transitional Clerkship Evaluation (Word Document)
- Report Stemming from the Indiana Immersion Conference (Word Document)
- UWSMPH team chosen to participate in Immersion Conference on Enhancing Professional Culture
- Transitional Clerkship, July 5-6, 2007
- Clerkship Evaluation
- Curriculum Goal Statements by Year and ACGME Competency Area
- TACCT (Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training)
- Course/Curriculum Evaluation and Student Assessment Data Collected by UWSMPH
Three separate initiatives for transformation
Develop a new curriculum Creating ethical and culturally aware physicians who are sensitive to health disparities, trained in population health and the psychosocial issues affecting health, and adept at using information technology and teamwork to make data-driven decisions about patients.
Diversify the resources Enhancing the Clinical Skills Teaching and Assessment Center to provide training for health professionals in working with diverse groups and to cover the curriculum, strengthening ties with health science educators, and promote the center state wide.
Develop an online portal Creating a dedicated Web site which will highlight instructional and distance education technologies and function as a visible interface between the instructional and research resources of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and the statewide users of these resources, including student learners, faculty and community preceptors, public health organizations, and health consumers.