Champion Excellence in Education and Diversity and Inclusion Excellence in education is embedded in our mission. The College and each school is dedicated to ensuring a culture of innovation and continuous quality improvement throughout our academic programs, including opportunities for research, scholarship and clinical practice, with dedicated and empowered faculty. The College will continue to strengthen student support, including academic services and scholarships, available to students in all schools. NYMC has an honorable history of diversity and inclusion. We commit ourselves to building productively on this foundation. This includes addressing health care and other disparities in our educational programs where appropriate. To achieve this goal, we will enhance access; encourage innovation; create best-in-class research opportunities; promote interdisciplinary collaboration; provide exceptional clinical experiences; promote faculty achievement; and provide an inclusive environment that fosters diversity—in order to prepare our entire student community to become tomorrow’s biomedical innovators and health care leaders.
GOAL 1 Offer graduate and professional programs that support the NYMC mission: to educate biomedical scientists and prepare them for careers as medical professionals, researchers, teachers, innovators and leaders, in an atmosphere of excellence, scholarship and integrity. Subgoal 1: Evaluate and assess academic programs to ensure that they are meeting the needs of our students, are responsive to market needs and are sustainable and competitive. Subgoal 2: Develop programs and new degrees to allow students to individualize their education and advance their careers. Subgoal 3: Create interdisciplinary research centers of excellence, bringing together faculty and students within each of the basic science disciplines and relevant faculty and students from all the schools on our campus. Subgoal 4: Develop and enhance online learning systems for all schools with sufficiently trained support personnel to allow crossinstitutional teaching and extend the College’s reach to a larger target population. Subgoal 5: Enhance student research opportunities.
8 NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE
