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Excellence in professional education facilitates the development
of excellent clinical practitioners.
Learning is a lifelong process that is enabled by curiosity
and experimental inquiry.
Active learning is the most effective form of education.
Learners are empowered as they assume the major responsibility
for their intellectual and professional development.
Individual self-awareness and self-assessment skills are critical
characteristics of health care practitioners.
Education of competent, caring, health care professionals
integrates classroom and clinical learning experiences.
Adaptability to change is crucial in the health professions.
Effective decision-making skills are enhanced by the processes
of problem solving and critical thinking.
Education encourages the valuing of individual cultures and
diversity among students, faculty, and the communities that
are served.
Ethics and integrity are paramount to excellence in health
care.
Humanistic values and caring are the foundations for effective
health care delivery.
Multidisciplinary collaboration provides the basis for effective
and efficient delivery of health care and health promotion
through a team approach.
Effective communication enhances the delivery of quality health
care and health promotion.
Faculty have a responsibility to continue their professional
development in areas of teaching, research, and service.
Faculty are role models for expected student characteristics.
Faculty have responsibility to contribute to the generation
of new knowledge.
Faculty demonstrate dedication and vision by continually improving
educational processes through innovation in instructional
techniques and technology.
Faculty make significant contributions to society by serving
as experts in health care and health promotion, and by participating
in professional and community service activities.
Faculty and graduates positively influence the direction and
scope of health care and health promotion within the region.
Faculty and graduates influence health care reform through
legislative and political involvement. |
