Mission, Vision, Values and Goals of the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

The Mission

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine is a collaborative, diverse, inclusive, and technologically advanced learning community, dedicated to enabling students to become skillful, ethical, and compassionate physicians, inquisitive scientists who are invested in the scholarship of discovery, and dynamic and effective medical educators.

The Vision

The Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine will be recognized by its students and faculty members - and by their peers in the global medical community - as a premier educational environment for individuals to become physicians and to study medicine throughout their lives, to transform the practice of medicine through research, and to lead in promoting, maintaining, and restoring health to individuals and communities served by the school and its graduates.

Our Values

Our values will guide our actions and describe how we will behave and work together to achieve our mission and vision.

Compassion:

We are a “School that cares” by having a safe and secure environment that treats everyone with respect, sensitivity, dignity, decency and empathy in all our endeavors.

Partnership, Collaboration and Teamwork:

We are dedicated to collegiality, collaboration, teamwork, and mutual respect as enthusiastically we work together within and across organizational boundaries in pursuit of our mission.

Innovation:

We pursue all avenues to energize and encourage creativity while cultivating and nurturing the school environment to foster the unique talents of our students, staff and faculty.

Professionalism:

We value honesty, integrity and ethical conduct in dealing with our students, patients, faculty, staff and the community we serve.

Quest for Excellence:

We commit to doing the best for everyone who interacts with the school by always striving to build upon and enhance what already has been achieved.

Goals

Our mission is accomplished through the following goals, which exemplify a student-centered approach to biomedical education, a patient-centered approach to the delivery of health care, and a focus on highly original research that includes the biomedical sciences and extends beyond the laboratory to all disciplines that impact the health of patients and their communities.

Over-arching Goals:

To achieve and sustain excellence in medical education, research, and patient care.
To serve our community through the faithful execution of our mission.

Medical Education related Goals:

To integrate and translate scientific basis into the art and practice of medicine.
To inspire all students and teachers to work as partners with peers, colleagues, patients and community as continuous learners and scholars in ways that advance the practice of medicine.
To sustain a collaborative culture of excellence in learning by applying the best knowledge in the science of education to our medical education community.
To stimulate and instill lifelong learning and continuous renewal of intellectual curiosity to actively seek new knowledge and skills necessary in all professional endeavors.

Research Program related Goals:

To embrace internal and external partnerships that promote the development of novel technologies to advance medicine.
To create and integrate research in all aspects of education, to foster scientific excellence, innovation and leadership.
To promote collaborative research that stimulates physicians and scientists in various disciplines to investigate and apply scientific findings into clinically useful care practices.
To strive for, develop and integrate medical education research into the daily activities of the medical school.

Faculty related Goals

To promote a culture that recognizes and values the role of faculty and staff as partners in the success of school’s mission.
To advance, support and recognize the medical educator, mindful of the role biomedical scientists and physicians play as communicators and teachers.
To create a dynamic exchange of ideas between medical scholars and colleagues in other disciplines, acknowledging the potential contributions of many fields to the improvement of healthcare.

Health care services related Goals:

To affirm, emphasize and demonstrate that the individual and the community is the raison d'être of our activities.
To integrate preventive, wellness and curative patient care into all aspects of education, mindful and respectful of culturally competent care and compassionate interpersonal communication toward patients and families.
To embrace, promote and incorporate new knowledge and treatment modalities for health care and management of diseases.
To develop mutually supportive relationships with external partners in clinical services that foster and enhance our clinical and educational programs.

Administration Related Goals

To create new sources of revenues and to ensure effective use of available resources.
To promote a culture that recognizes and values the role of faculty, staff and student as partners in the success of school’s mission.
To promote and sustain a culture of excellence in management that demonstrates our values of compassion, integrity, transparency, collaboration and innovation.