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Element 11.2: Career Advising
LCME Element 11.2 - Career Advising A medical school has an effective career advising system in place that integrates the efforts of faculty members, clerkship directors, and student affairs staff to assist medical students in choosing elective courses, evaluating...
Element 10.9: Student Assignment
LCME Element 10.9 - Student Assignment A medical school assumes ultimate responsibility for the selection and assignment of medical students to each location and/or parallel curriculum (i.e., track) and identifies the administrative office that fulfills this...
Element 9.1: Preparation of Resident and Non-Faculty Instructors
LCME Element 9.1 - Preparation of Resident and Non-Faculty Instructors (from 2022-23 Version): In a medical school, residents, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and other non-faculty instructors in the medical education program who supervise or teach medical...
Element 8.3: Curricular Design, Review, Revision/Content Monitoring
LCME Element 8.3 - Curricular Design, Review, Revision/Content Monitoring The faculty of a medical school, through the faculty committee responsible for the medical curriculum, are responsible for the detailed development, design, and implementation of all components...
Element 7.9: Interprofessional Collaborative Skills
LCME Element 7.9 - Interprofessional Collaborative Skills The faculty of a medical school ensure that the core curriculum of the medical education program prepares medical students to function collaboratively on health care teams that include health professionals from...
Element 6.3: Self-Directed and Life-Long Learning
LCME Element 6.3 - Self-Directed and Life-Long Learning The faculty of a medical school ensure that the medical curriculum includes self-directed learning experiences and unscheduled time to allow medical students to develop the skills of lifelong learning....
Element 5.9: Information Technology Resources/Staff
For Today’s edition, Christner Strategies' in-house IT expert, Devin Dabney, is taking over the airwaves…. LCME Element 5.9 - Information Technology Resources/Staff A medical school provides access to well-maintained information technology resources sufficient in...
Element 4.4: Feedback to Faculty
LCME Element 4.4 - Feedback to Faculty A medical school faculty member receives regularly scheduled and timely feedback from departmental and/or other programmatic or institutional leaders on academic performance and progress toward promotion and, when applicable,...
Element 3.6: Student Mistreatment
As it’s the third month of the year, let’s focus on an element from the third LCME Standard. Everyone’s favorite: LCME Element 3.6 - Student Mistreatment A medical school develops effective written policies that define mistreatment, has effective mechanisms in place...