About the OUWB Culture: Our Staff, Faculty, and Leadership
Everyone in the School of Medicine - every staff member, faculty member, and member of the School of Medicine leadership - has been recruited on the basis of talent and emotional intelligence. We pay attention to experience but we remember that one can have considerable experience and still not deliver inspired scholarship, teaching, and service. Therefore, it matters more to us that a member of our medical school community embraces a fluid exchange of ideas across disciplines and takes pleasure in the accomplishments of everyone and of the entire school.
Each of us works best when our passions for medical education, scholarship and service converge with our talents. We strive to achieve this convergence so that membership in the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine team becomes a greenhouse for a career.
Sustaining the OUWB Culture
The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine is resilient. We lost one of our beloved founding associate deans - Dr. Michele Raible to leukemia during an especially fragile formative period of our development. As a community, we cared for Michele and her husband, we grieved together when we lost Michele, and, inspired by her contributions, we remembered her and continued to grow and develop the school and the culture.
Each generation of arrivals to the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine receives the culture from the previous generations. A structured program explaining the culture is delivered to every employee - staff, faculty, and leadership - by the founding dean. Everyone realizes the culture must be transmitted to the school’s study partners - to our students.