The school is building a centralized means of supporting the curriculum, addressing the areas of student assessment, faculty development and curriculum development. The staff of the Office of Curricular Affairs is highly competent and responsive to supporting the curriculum. Some staff responsibilities appear to exceed their position descriptions and overall there may be a greater workload than what is reasonable for the current staffing. The library space as an educational resource is an inadequate facility.
Career counseling is an important issue for students.
They feel that they do not receive adequate information and guidance, particularly in the first two years, to make reasoned choices of career paths. Consideration should be given to a medical education office that has an education trained unit leader reporting to the Associate Dean. All support functions, including evaluation services, faculty development, and instructional development would be subsumed under this model. The model offers a fair allocation of educational resources to departments, avoids redundancy within departments, and affords a coordinated response to the educational needs of faculty. It also helps assure quality control over the curriculum implementation.