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Element 9.8: Fair and Timely Summative Assessment
LCME Element 9.8 - Fair and Timely Summative Assessment A medical school has in place a system of fair and timely summative assessment of medical student achievement in each course and clerkship of the medical education program. Final grades are available within six...
Element 8.8: Monitoring Student Time
Element 8.8 - Monitoring Student Time The medical school faculty committee responsible for the medical curriculum and the program’s administration and leadership ensure the development and implementation of effective policies and procedures regarding the amount of...
Element 7.1: Biomedical, Behavioral, Social Sciences
Element 7.1 - Biomedical, Behavioral, Social Sciences The faculty of a medical school ensure that the medical curriculum includes content from the biomedical, behavioral, and socioeconomic sciences to support medical students' mastery of contemporary medical science...
Element 6.2: Required Clinical Experiences
Element 6.2 - Required Clinical Experiences The faculty of a medical school define the types of patients and clinical conditions that medical students are required to encounter, the skills to be performed by medical students, the appropriate clinical settings for...
Element 5.11: Study/Lounge/Storage Space/Call Rooms
Element 5.11 - Study/Lounge/Storage Space/Call Rooms A medical school ensures that its medical students at each campus and affiliated clinical site have adequate study space, lounge areas, personal lockers or other secure storage facilities, and secure call rooms if...
Element 4.5: Faculty Professional Development
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...
Element 3.2: Community of Scholars/Research Opportunities
Element 3.2 - Community of Scholars/Research Opportunities A medical education program is conducted in an environment that fosters the intellectual challenge and spirit of inquiry appropriate to a community of scholars and provides sufficient opportunities,...
Element 2.3: Access and Authority of the Dean
Element 2.3 - Access and Authority of the Dean The dean of a medical school has sufficient access to the university president or other institutional official charged with final responsibility for the medical school and to other institutional officials in order to...
Element 1.1: Focusing on Continuous Quality Improvement
LCME Element 1.1 - Focusing on Continuous Quality Improvement A medical school engages in ongoing strategic planning and continuous quality improvement processes that establish its short and long-term programmatic goals, result in the achievement of measurable...
Element 12.5: Non-Involvement of Providers of Student Health Services in Student Assessment/Location of Student Health Records
Element 12.5 - Non-Involvement of Providers of Student Health Services in Student Assessment/Location of Student Health Records The health professionals who provide health services, including psychiatric/psychological counseling, to a medical student have no...
Element 11.1: Academic Advising and Academic Counseling
LCME Element 11.1 - Academic Advising and Academic Counseling A medical school has an effective system of academic advising in place for medical students that integrates the efforts of faculty members, course and clerkship directors, and student affairs staff with its...
Element 10.8: Visiting Students
LCME Element 10.8 - Visiting Students A medical school does all of the following: Verifies the credentials of each visiting medical student Ensures that each visiting medical student demonstrates qualifications comparable to those of the medical students the visiting...