| Since education is the defining mission of a medical school, we are committed to providing outstanding and innovative educational programs for physicians, other health care providers, and scientists to meet the needs of patients, families, and society. Significant resources will be devoted to innovation in curricular design, rigorous evaluation and improvement of educational outcomes, faculty development, and information technology. All faculty members must contribute in some measure to the educational mission. The school should align sources and uses of revenues for educational programs and must procure additional resources to support excellence in education.
Northwestern will become one of the top 20 research-intensive medical schools in the United States, with the faculty, funding, and infrastructure necessary to sustain a top-tier research enterprise. The school and its academic medical center affiliates will strengthen existing capabilities and establish new programs in strategically important research areas. The research enterprise should enhance the school’s educational programs and contribute to the quality and effectiveness of patient care services in our academic medical center.
The prominence of our academic programs attract distinguished physicians and investigators to our faculty, excellent residents and fellows to our training programs, and outstanding students to our school, thereby creating a stimulating professional environment where the ethic of service to patients and the community is informed by the best that science and medicine have to offer. Faculty members will continue to provide the highest quality patient care and maintain the highest standards of ethics and service to patients. The school will maintain a leadership position by leveraging the value that its academic mission provides to the patient care enterprise.
 The quality and success of the institution depend on our ability to provide the intellectual environment and resources necessary to attract and retain an outstanding faculty and on the continuing commitment of the faculty to our academic mission. The school must maintain a well-balanced full-time and contributed services clinical faculty. Faculty members should participate in setting and be held accountable for institutional goals. Leadership and management skills should be sought and developed in faculty leaders.
The school must maintain the space, facilities, support services, and technology base necessary to sustain its programs. More and better research and animal facilities, information and administrative systems, and support services are necessary. We have a responsibility to ensure that resources are used productively to foster faculty and student achievement.
We must continue to evolve an academic medical center culture and strategies appropriate for our environment and attract the resources necessary to realize our bold vision for the future.
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