About the OUWB Culture: Our Study Partners, Our Students
Our study partners influence us as we, faculty and staff influence them - the human expression of dynamic reciprocity.
We recruit staff, faculty and leadership on the basis of talent and emotional intelligence. We admit medical students through a parallel process - through holistic review. We take it for granted that our students are gifted academically. We select students who are passionate about scholarship and service and who are attracted to the affirmative and humanistic culture of the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.
We understand that our students are learning medicine for the first time while we annually renew our own study of medicine with them. By learning together, our students become our study partners. In the research laboratory, a cell in culture may influence its microenvironment just as the microenvironment may influence the cell, a process known as “dynamic reciprocity” (Mina J Bissell).
Discovering Leading and Learning
The School of Medicine’s PRISM program guides students to discover where their passions for medicine converge with their talents so the medical school is a greenhouse for their careers.
PRISM also encourages students to take care of themselves and to care for each other, fulfilling the pledges that students take in reciting the Oath of Geneva during the White Coat Ceremony: “my colleagues will be my sisters and brothers.”
Our study partners - our students - learn in teams because research and the practice of medicine requires teamwork, learning how to lead, and learning how to participate.
Achieving Excellence
We expect our study partners - our students - to reach beyond competency to achieve excellence. The Capstone Project provides this opportunity to ask important questions and to begin to develop answers. 
We expect our students to think critically while considering the proposition that “wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge” (Abraham Joshua Heschel).
We wish every student success while we work with every student to become successful. We hope that they derive satisfaction from their own achievements and joy from the accomplishments of their peers.
We do all of this because, in the end, everything we do is about creating extraordinary physicians and scientists to fulfill the mission and vision of the school.