Building a Premier Learning Community Wichita Task Force Report Student Aptitudes and Attitudes Students' inherent skills and aptitudes are quite good. Students are increasingly comfortable with distance learning technologies.
Students overall are pleased with their educational experiences in Wichita.
The utility of distance education has been proven and demonstrated by the School of Nursing. Methods to develop and evaluate students' clinical skills are not optimal. Patient resources in the Wichita community are quite adequate. The graduation competencies of SOM graduates are still inadequately defined and measured. The concepts inherent to professionalism need to be emphasized throughout the curriculum.