Good teaching is of primary importance to the medical school's administration.
Indeed it is a topic we address regularly in an ongoing effort to monitor and improve quality. The Office of Curriculum Affairs will review all faculty evaluations. Faculty members who receive a rating below 2.5 on a 4-point scale will be sent a letter requesting the faculty member to review the student evaluations and to send written comments to the director of the Office of Curriculum Affairs. A copy of the faculty remarks will also be sent to the associate dean for medical education, the department chair and to the chair of the preclinical subcommittee of the Medical Curriculum Committee. After receiving the letter, the director of the Office of Curriculum Affairs will meet with the faculty member to discuss specific ways the faculty member plans to improve his or her course instruction.