| 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.
Social Responsibility and Community Orientation
 Definition
Our activities and programs have relevance and benefit to the improvement of health in our community and state.
Importance
The School of Medicine serves as a safe harbor and neutral institution. We are able to participate in the discourse of our community by responsible stewardship of the intellectual and social capital of students, resident-physicians, community volunteer teachers and full-time faculty. KUSM-W is able to effect change and improvements in medicine and public health through partnerships that are local, regional, national and international at both the individual and organization levels.
Practices
- Offering direct patient care
- Developing community assessment and focused care to address unmet health care needs
- Providing un-reimbursed and under-reimbursed services
- Providing healthy workers to the business community
- Maintaining the skills of volunteer faculty through interaction with learners and continuing professional development
- Increasing access of care and services in rural and inner city populations
- Actively seeking, valuing, integrating and responding to input from community partners
- Providing a vehicle for mobilization of community physicians, as well as medical school employees, around issues of patient care, healthy communities and social concern
- Encouraging medical school staff, student and physician involvement in community activities
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