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LCME Spotlight is a resource from the Office of Educational Improvement (OEI) within the Department of Academic Affairs. The LCME Spotlight is designed to increase faculty and staff awareness and understanding of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) standards (elements) that guide all aspects of the Medical Education Program and their impact upon 91ɫƵ’s medical school accreditation status.

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April 2019: 91ɫƵ Hosted LCME Site Visit Team
On April 7 through 11, 91ɫƵ hosted our LCME Site Visit team. The team started with an evening meeting with Dr. Kerschner on Sunday and then spent two days in Milwaukee meeting with educators, staff, and faculty members before traveling up to Green Bay and Central Wisconsin in the snow to meet with our students and colleagues there. The site team concluded their visit Thursday morning with an exit interview with Drs. Kerschner and Raymond. In total, the team met with 159 individuals during their three days on campus. This was an enormous undertaking and truly a team effort that actually started back in July 2017!

The site visit team will make a report to the LCME who will review their findings and issue their decisions to us in October. I anticipate we will have some work to do in some areas and will require ongoing monitoring of our many new programs including the regional campuses. I am also confident that they will find many strengths in our institution and especially in our educational programs.

Now that the site visit has concluded, the next step is the visit team will finalize their report and submit it to the LCME. The LCME likely will consider the findings of the report and make their final determinations at their October 2019 board meeting and we will be notified of their findings later that month.

Thank you to everyone who helped in the data gathering, self-study, and various other phases of the project. Special thanks go out to Seema Sernovitz, who coordinated the self-study before departing for Florida, and to Pat Hurlbut, who picked up the reins from Seema and helped coordinate the visit along with Maureen Pylman and Zandra Clevert.
March 2019

91ɫƵ’s Vision Statement

We are pioneering pathways to a healthier world.

91ɫƵ’s Mission Statement

We are a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians and scientists. We discover and translate new knowledge in the biomedical and health sciences. We provide cutting-edge, collaborative patient care of the highest quality, and we improve the health of the communities we serve.

We are fast approaching our LCME Site visit as April 7-11 is just around the corner! The accreditation team will often request additional information as the site visit approaches. We want to extend a heartfelt “thank you” to all faculty and staff members who have provided information and support to the preparation process!

We are proud to send the LCME our most recent document – our 2019 Match Day results. These results are just one more piece of evidence of the fulfillment of our mission and a reminder of what we come together to accomplish – providing high-quality medical education to the healthcare providers of tomorrow.

February 2019: Site Visit Schedule

91ɫƵ’s medical school’s LCME site visit is scheduled to take place April 7-11, 2019. Here is a look at the schedule requested by the site review team.

Sunday, April 7

  • 6:00 pm - Meet with Dr. Joseph Kerschner

Monday, April 8

  • 8:00 am - Meet with Senior Leadership Staff
  • 8:30 am - Educational Program Objectives, Content Curriculum Management and Evaluation
  • 10:15 am - Teaching, Supervision, Student Assessment, Student Advancement
  • 11:00 am - Tour of Educational Facilities
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch with M1-M2 students from Milwaukee
  • 1:15 pm - Pre-clerkship course directors
  • 2:15 pm - Required clerkship directors
  • 3:30 pm - Medical School Finances
  • 4:15 pm - Clinical Affiliate Representatives

Tuesday, April 9

  • 7:30 am - Breakfast with Residents
  • 8:30 am - Admissions, Student Selection, Financial Aid and Debt Management Counseling
  • 9:30 am -  Academic, Career and Personal Counseling/ Student Health
  • 10:45 am - Institutional Diversity, Learning Environment and Student Mistreatment
  • 11:45 am - Lunch with M3-M4 students
  • 1:15 pm - Junior Faculty
  • 1:45 pm - Institutional Faculty Issues
  • 2:30 pm - Research Opportunities for Students
  • 3:15 pm - Basic Science Department Chairs
  • 4:00 pm - Clinical Chairs

Wednesday, April 10

Site visit team will split and make visits to each regional campus:

  • 10:00 am -  Campus Dean
  • 11:00 am -  Tour of Educational Facilities
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch with students from all years
  • 1:00 pm -  Course directors/site directors

Thursday, April 11

  • 10:00 am -  Exit interview with Dean Kerschner
  • 10:30 am - Exit interview with institutional leader
January 2019: LCME Site Visit

91ɫƵ’s medical school’s LCME site visit is scheduled to take place April 7-11, 2019.

Purpose of the LCME

  • To ensure that 91ɫƵ is compliant with the 12 accreditation standards.
  • To ensure that 91ɫƵ engages in quality improvement.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • 91ɫƵ has a single accreditation for all three campuses; non-compliance at any campus may result in a citation.
  • LCME standards are rarely prescriptive, with the focus being on outcomes rather than the process.
  • The LCME looks for evidence that effective systems are in place to ensure compliance with the 12 standards.
    • They want to make sure we have policies in place and follow them.
  • The LCME seeks assurance that sufficient resources (human, physical, financial) are available to support compliance with the standards.

What to Expect

  • The site visit schedule is directed by LCME, which includes designating participants by their roles within the School to meet with the site visit team.
  • Preparatory sessions are scheduled for the last week in March and first week in April to review relevant materials with the designated participants.
  • The site visit begins with a Sunday evening meeting and concludes with a Thursday morning de-briefing with Dr. Kerschner and Dr. Raymond.
  • The site visit team will be on the Milwaukee campus Monday and Tuesday. The team will split into two sub-groups and travel to 91ɫƵ-Central Wisconsin and 91ɫƵ-Green Bay on Wednesday, April 10. Over 150 91ɫƵ staff, faculty and students will meet with the team in the three-day visit.
December 2018: Element 7.6 Cultural Competence and Health Care Disparities

The faculty of a medical school ensure that the medical curriculum provides opportunities for medical students to learn to recognize and appropriately address gender and cultural biases in themselves, in others, and in the health care delivery process. The medical curriculum includes instruction regarding the following:

  • The manner in which people of diverse cultures and belief systems perceive health and illness and respond to various symptoms, diseases, and treatments 
  • The basic principles of culturally competent health care
  • The recognition and development of solutions for health care disparities
  • The importance of meeting the health care needs of medically underserved populations
  • The development of core professional attributes (e.g., altruism, accountability) needed to 
  • Provide effective care in a multidimensional and diverse society

91ɫƵ’s Efforts to Provide Cultural Competence Education

  • National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) training provided during M1 orientation and M3 Continuous Professional Development’s summer intersession
  • Formal course content in courses throughout the M1-M3 years (Continuous Professional Development, early clinical courses, M2 interdisciplinary units, etc.)
 
October 2018: Element 4.5 Faculty Professional Development

“A medical school and/or its sponsoring institution provides opportunities for professional development to each faculty member in the areas of discipline content, curricular design, program evaluation, student assessment methods, instructional methodology, and research to enhance his or her skills and leadership abilities in these areas.”

What does this mean?

The LCME requires that faculty be provided with sufficient opportunities for professional development to support them in their educational and research roles.

91ɫƵ’s Efforts to Provide Faculty Development

  • The Office of Educational Improvement offers instructional design services and faculty development programming focused on educator skill refinement and development.
  • The Office of Measurement and Evaluation regularly assesses post-event course and instructor evaluation and provides data analysis and individualized feedback reports.
  • The Office of Research provides a variety of training sessions on issues such as human research protections and grant development.
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