CQI Monitoring Expectations

Our continuous quality improvement efforts aim to ensure compliance with the accreditation expectations set forth by the LCME.

Progress

Since our last full accreditation LCME survey visit in 2014, the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences has made significant progress in the following areas:

• Establishing required clinical encounters during clerkships and determining the level of student participation in these learning experiences 
• Defining the level of student responsibility and faculty supervision
• Ensuring resident participation in medical student education
• Preparing and supporting residents as teachers
• Providing additional opportunities for faculty mentorship
• Providing additional opportunities for faculty professional development as researchers and as educators
• Providing additional opportunities for both community service and service learning opportunities on all campuses
• Enhancing education related to research principles
• Providing additional opportunities for students to participate in research
• Revising program educational goals, and then linking course and clerkship goals to the program goals
• Improving the design, management, and evaluation of the medical curriculum
• Submitting clerkship grades in a timely manner
• Improving student appeal and student academic advancement policies
• Clarifying our policies related to conflict of interest in assessment of medical students and policies related to student mistreatment
• Establishing blood-borne pathogen and environmental hazard exposure policies and procedures

Ongoing Efforts

Ongoing efforts to improve the medical education program and to meet LCME expectations for accreditation include:

• Improving student satisfaction ratings by expanding opportunities to participate in research
• Improving student study spaces in the main campus building and at clinical teaching sites
• Improving relevance of biomedical sciences content in Phase 1 in preparation for clinical experiences in Phases 2 and 3, and concurrently improving biomedical science education during clinical learning experiences
• Improving cultural competence and student confidence in caring for patients from diverse backgrounds
• Improving educational experiences related to health care disparities
• Improving faculty/student communications and responsiveness to student feedback
• Improving narrative assessment (formative and summative) in pre-clinical and clinical settings
• Improving student satisfaction related to academic advising and career counseling