A shortage in nursing students is a bigger issue than just empty seats in a classroom. Providing more BSN options means getting critical workers employed as quickly as possible. It’s…
Medical Schools
Bringing a New Kind of Medical School to Market
Elizabeth Pimentel | Dean of the School of Naturopathic Medicine, Maryland University of Integrative HealthThe medical field is in a constant state of change and evolution, pushing medical schools to keep up with the latest education, techniques and research. All told, however, the majority…
With an aging population, a growing cultural interest in health, fitness and wellbeing and a shortage of medical professionals, the medical education space is more in the limelight today than…
The Medical Education Landscape is Changing and Leaders Must Change With It
Jeffrey A. Schroetlin | Consultant in the Academic Medicine and Health Sciences Practice, Witt/KiefferMajor health systems across the United States are exploring their options in the medical education space in unprecedented ways. From partnering with medical schools to purchasing existing schools to simply…
Life, in general, is interdisciplinary. Airplanes cannot fly without engineers who build, mechanics who fix and pilots who fly. Taking care of patients requires teams of providers—physicians, nurses, pharmacists, medical…
Five Steps to Building an Academic Innovation Engine
Christina M. Sax | Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Maryland University of Integrative HealthAcademic innovation, change and transformation. All are seen as vehicles to solve many of higher education’s challenges. Institutions are increasingly investing in such efforts. Approximately 10 percent of the American…
Higher education institutions play a massive role in supporting economic growth and prosperity, but this cannot be an accidental by-product of their work. Entire communities tend to be underserved as…
Medical Education’s Seismic Shift: Implications for Recruiting New Leaders
Joyce De Leo | Consultant in Academic Medicine and Health Sciences Practice, Witt/KiefferIn a recent article, Joyce De Leo shared her views on the seismic shift taking place in medical education. She pointed out that it is now time for change and…
Medical education confronts many of the same challenges as other sectors of higher education, including affordability, access, and questions about its efficacy. However, as a domain that incorporates a high…
Medical Education’s Seismic Shift (and What It Means for Leadership)
Joyce De Leo | Consultant in Academic Medicine and Health Sciences Practice, Witt/KiefferMedical education is undergoing a significant and much-needed transformation. For over 100 years the standard medical school curriculum has comprised two years of lecture-based science classes followed by two years…
The medical education space is immensely challenging, and demand for medical education is consistently rising. However, from institution to institution the medical curricula can vary widely, despite the similarity in…
Reputation and Partnerships Central to Mayo’s Southwestern Expansion
Michele Halyard | Interim Dean of the Main Campus and Vice Dean of the Arizona Campus, Mayo Medical SchoolMayo Medical School is working on a national level to transform medical education curricula and delivery to prepare future physicians for the needs of their patients and the evolving health…
Just as the music and publishing industries have adapted to changing societal norms, lifestyles and emerging technology, so must health care and medical education. The health care delivery environment is…
Data and Medical Education: Reimagining the Medical School
Marc Triola | Associate Dean for Educational Informatics at the School of Medicine, New York UniversityThis is the second installment of a two-part interview with Marc Triola. In the first part of the Q&A, Triola explained how the NYU School of Medicine is responding to…
Providing a strong student and customer experience is a top priority for institutions and colleges across the higher education spectrum. After all, students are better able to focus on their…
Data and Medical Education: Reimagining Medical Instruction
Marc Triola | Associate Dean for Educational Informatics at the School of Medicine, New York UniversityMedical schools are uniquely designed to prepare professionals to enter a very specific professional field. As such, it’s critical for medical education leaders to constantly be aware of the needs…
The medical education marketplace is immensely competitive and the number of institutions participating grows every academic year. While demand for medical education is growing annually, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for…
Challenges and Opportunities: Innovative Credentials in the Medical Education Space
Larry Gruppen | Chair of Medical Education at the School of Medicine, University of MichiganCompetency-based education has been gaining momentum across the American higher education landscape over the past five years, but in the medical education field competencies have been king since 2000. That…
Beyond the rankings lists and brand reputations, it can be difficult to differentiate medical schools in today’s highly competitive medical education marketplace. What’s more, as increasing numbers of institutions introduce…
Fundraising Critical to Differentiation in the Medical Education Space
Alan Krensky | Vice Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern UniversityA powerful discriminator between the good and the exceptional biomedical institutions is the availability of resources to move in new directions rapidly and seamlessly. Large amounts of expendable funds and/or…
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer high-quality content from world-class universities to anyone with access to the worldwide web for free. Since their inception in 2012, much has been written…
Roadblocks and Opportunities: The Flipped Classroom Is Emerging in Medical Ed
Charles Prober | Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at the School of Medicine, Stanford UniversityAcross higher education, traditional approaches to teaching are being revisited and revised to meet the expectations of today’s students. In some disciplines these alternative options are widespread and common while…
—Co-written by J. John Cohen | Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine— Why did we decide to end an outreach program that was wildly popular for 24 years? The…
Should Medical Education Be More Virtual?
Leslie Fall | Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth CollegeThe recent announcement of the iMBA program by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with the online provider Coursera, highlights the rising availability of an affordable online professional education.[1] With the cost of a private medical education…
—Co-Written with Mark Terrell | Assistant Dean of Medical Education, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and Tim Novak | Director of the Masters in Health Services Administration, Lake Erie…