Curriculum Committee
The Committee is responsible for establishing a process for reviewing, evaluating, and revising the curriculum on a recurring time line to ensure that the curriculum is coherent, coordinated, fully integrated, current, and effective. In addition, the Committee is responsible for making recommendations to the Dean about the system of incentives for teaching effort, salary support for faculty who teach, teaching space required by the curriculum design, and other support requirements needed to make the curriculum operational. The Committee has the authority, with the approval of the Dean, to set educational objectives, establish educational requirements, allocate curriculum time, specify teaching methods, approve course directors, and evaluate educational outcomes. In addition, the Committee has the authority to set performance standards for instructors, initiate faculty development efforts, and evaluate instructor performance. |
Curriculum Committee of the School of Medicine is responsible for defining the goals and objectives of the curriculum; for the design, management and evaluation of the undergraduate medical curriculum, in accordance with the accreditation requirements of the LCME and the mission and vision of the School of Medicine.