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| For more than 100 years, Mayo Clinic has had an unwavering commitment to educating the next generation of health-care leaders. |
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Mayo Medical School will use the patient-centered focus and strengths of Mayo Clinic to educate aspiring physicians to serve society by assuming leadership roles in medical practice, education, and research.
Goals
- To enroll an outstanding and diverse student body who have a strong foundation in the sciences and a demonstrated commitment to service and continuous learning.
- To attract an outstanding and diverse faculty who understand and utilize the best principles of education, to foster their professional development and to recognize and reward superior scholarship in education.
- To provide a learner-centered curriculum that integrates strong basic sciences, ethical principles, professional standards and outstanding clinical training.
- To provide an intellectually stimulating environment where the small class size and large faculty of physicians, investigators and educators unite to promote the scientific and humanitarian practice of medicine.
- To graduate physicians who:
- respect the importance of the patient as an individual;
- have mastered the knowledge and skills required for diagnosis, patient management, health promotion and disease prevention;
- desire to provide service and become leaders in medical practice, education and/or research;
- incorporate the highest ethical principles into their life and practice;
- affirm the value of medical research, the role of the physician as educator and the importance of lifelong learning;
- make altruistic career choices based on personal skills and without the burden of excessive education debt.
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