Charleston School of Medicine
Mission and Goals
The WVU School of Medicine-Charleston will continue to contribute,
as one of the oldest regional medical education campuses in the
United States, to the WVU vision of being nationally recognized
as a leader among academic health care organizations by cultivating
a tradition of excellence and innovations in its missions.
The WVU School of Medicine-Charleston will continue to partner
with the Charleston Area Medical Center to demonstrate excellence
and innovations as an academic medical center in meeting its goals
in the education, patient care, research and community service missions.
The WVU School of Medicine-Charleston will demonstrate its core
values (excellence, integrity, compassion, dedication, respect,
empathy, personal and social responsibility) in carrying out its
mission and goals.
The WVU School of Medicine-Charleston’s mission goals are
medical discipline dictated but should include:
- Education:
provide the information and experience to achieve
an adult learning life time process to assure the core competencies
necessary for the practice of medicine.
- Patient Care:
provide a level of quality care that assures a
compassionate patient centered approach based on practice based
learning and improvement in an environment that values ethical principles
and sensitivities.
- Research:
provide an academic environment that values innovation,
challenges, transparency and investigation that is subject to the
scrutiny of peers and the public.
- Service to the State:
provide an environment that values, nurtures
and facilitates the involvement of faculty, residents and students
in “community” participation whether medical or not.
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