Compact between Medical Students, Faculty, and Academic Affairs at the Geisinger Health System
Geisinger Quality – Striving for Perfection
Securing the Legacy
January 2007 Introduction
The clinical years of medical school are an integral component of the formal education of future physicians. The Geisinger Health System has a proud legacy and long-standing commitment to medical student education. We continuously have offered a wide variety of outstanding clerkships throughout our institution. In order to meet the educational goals of medical students and to foster a stimulating academic environment among our faculty, we have formalized a set of expectations for medical students, their teachers, and the Academic Affairs Office at the Geisinger Health System. The Compact between Medical Students, Faculty, and Academic Affairs at the Geisinger Health System (i.e., “the Compact”) is a declaration of our vision of the fundamental principles of undergraduate medical education and the major commitments of medical students, faculty, and staff to the educational process, to each other, and to the patients they serve. The Compact provides students, faculty, and staff with a model statement that promotes open communication, clarifies expectations, and empowers individual clerkship directors to assure a consistently superior learning experience throughout the Geisinger Health System. The Compact has been adapted from the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) document, Compact between Resident Physicians and Their Teachers, published January 2006 (www.aamc.org/residentcompact). Geisinger Health System – Academic Affairs
academicaffairs@geisinger.edu
570/271-6114
|
