The vision of the KU School of Medicine-Wichita is to be the premier center for community-focused medical education and scholarship. Our core values will guide our decision making in reaching our vision.

Excellence In Education

Definition

• Competency-based curriculum
  
  
• Students are taught and assessed to provide patient-centered care, employ evidence-based practice, and efficiently utilize informatics to foster life-long learning
  
  
• Provide our students a competitive edge to meet the challenges of providing quality health care in the 21st century

Importance

As a community-focused medical school with dedicated educators, we have an opportunity to define a competency-based curriculum to educate and prepare health care professionals who will provide quality evidence-based patient and population-centered health care.

Practices 

• Identify, respect, and care about patient differences, values, preferences, and expressed needs; relieve pain and suffering; listen to, clearly inform, communicate with, and educate patients; share decision making and management; and continuously advocate disease prevention, wellness, and promotion of healthy lifestyles, including a focus on population health.
  
  
• Integrate best research and quality improvement techniques with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care, and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible.
  
  
• Communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making using information technology.

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