Goal 1: Attract the best and brightest learners from a diverse pool of highly qualified applicants.

• Maintain current, outstanding MCAT, GPA metrics and high-quality undergraduate institutions of matriculating students in the Core and SELECT MD programs.

Goal 2: Provide a nurturing and supportive environment that strives for excellence academically, professionally, and personally.

• Foster an environment that promotes resilience and prevents burnout among medical students.
• Strengthen and overhaul career advising systems to optimize outcomes of the residency match process. (LCME CQI Element 11.2)
• Improve strategy for communicating to student, helping them differentiate and recognize essential communication, and giving them more control over the announcements they receive.
• Improve the full range of services around financial aid assistance and debt management services/counseling.
• Enhance targeted support for student affinity groups that may have specific needs to provide a more inclusive and supportive environment.

Goal 3: Create & provide high-quality educational programming conducive to learning & innovation while maintaining an environment that fosters ongoing development.

• Increase use of augmented and virtual reality to enhance understanding of crucial medical concepts.
• Enhance Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) curriculum by providing a discipline-specific context to the AAMC’s EPAs.
• Replace aging and increasingly expensive evaluation software solution.

Goal 4: Enhance teaching excellence and commitment by providing practical resources, faculty development and support necessary to achieve the institution’s and faculty’s goals.

• Recruit, retain, and develop world-class UME educators.
• Improve dissemination of faculty evaluations data in order to provide better student feedback on teaching and assessment (LCME CQI Element 8.5)
• Expand faculty development opportunities specific to teaching and assessment.

Goal 5: Provide and support opportunities for high quality scholarly activities and training experiences.

• Empower UME students to succeed in extracurricular pursuits that strengthen and enhance their potential as future physicians and scientists.
• Enhance administrative infrastructure to support student research opportunities.

Goal 6: Ensure the physical infrastructure and educational support resources necessary to  produce  exceptional  learning  experiences  and  educational  outcomes  in  alignment  with  accreditation requirements and institutional mission.

• Optimize new downtown campus to accommodate evolving student and curricular needs.
• Utilize technologies to optimize financial aid, debt management and student research services.
• Optimize use of technology to enhance early identification of at-risk learners and provide services to optimize their academic success.

Goal 7: Create and promote a culturally competent and inclusive environment that fosters and supports a diverse community of faculty, staff, and learners and actively pursues to eliminate systemic racism within its programs.

• Increase integration of cultural humility, health impacts of systemic racism, and healthcare disparities content into the curriculum. 
• Support recruitment of diverse faculty and staff.

• Partner with programs to nurture the development of resilient and professionally successful resident physicians.

Goal 3: Create & provide high-quality educational programming conducive to learning & innovation while maintaining an environment that fosters ongoing development.

• Partner with programs to develop resident physicians who apply health systems science to team-based practice.

Goal 4: Enhance teaching excellence and commitment by providing practical resources, faculty development and support necessary to achieve the institution’s and faculty’s goals.

• Partner with affiliate sites and programs to enhance faculty’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes to teach and train resident physicians who will be ready for their future practice of medicine.

Goal 5: Provide and support opportunities for high quality scholarly activities and training experiences.

• Partner with programs to support learner and faculty research and scholarly activity.

Goal 6: Ensure the physical infrastructure and educational support resources necessary to  produce  exceptional  learning  experiences  and  educational  outcomes  in  alignment  with  accreditation requirements and institutional mission.

• Meet/exceed accreditation requirements and collaborate with affiliates towards achievement of their missions.

Goal 7: Create and promote a culturally competent and inclusive environment that fosters and supports a diverse community of faculty, staff, and learners and actively pursues to eliminate systemic racism within its programs.

• Partner with programs to foster an inclusive learning environment that works towards minimizing health disparities.

Goal 1: Attract the best and brightest learners from a diverse pool of highly qualified applicants.

• Expand the domestic applicant pool to both MS and PhD programs to include students outside of Florida and the Southeast.

Goal 2: Provide a nurturing and supportive environment that strives for excellence academically, professionally, and personally.

• Improve career advising and expand professional workshops for MS and PhD students.

Goal 3: Create & provide high-quality educational programming conducive to learning & innovation while maintaining an environment that fosters ongoing development.

• Enhance online course quality and utilization of instructional design tools in MS courses.

Goal 5: Provide and support opportunities for high quality scholarly activities and training experiences.

• Successfully compete for NIH T32 training grants.

Goal 1: Attract the best and brightest learners from a diverse pool of highly qualified applicants.

• Continue to enroll a diverse and highly qualified student body.

Goal 2: Provide a nurturing and supportive environment that strives for excellence academically, professionally, and personally.

• Strengthen Academic Performance Review Subcommittee (APRSC) by further developing early detection system that provides students with needed resources.

Goal 3: Create & provide high-quality educational programming conducive to learning & innovation while maintaining an environment that fosters ongoing development.

• Continue to provide a high-quality DPT education that embraces clinical reasoning, professionalism, and lifelong learning.

Goal 4: Enhance teaching excellence and commitment by providing practical resources, faculty development and support necessary to achieve the institution’s and faculty’s goals.

• Increase overall faculty teaching expertise.

Goal 5: Provide and support opportunities for high quality scholarly activities and training experiences.

• Increase opportunities for research participation and dissemination.

Goal 6: Ensure the physical infrastructure and educational support resources necessary to  produce  exceptional  learning  experiences  and  educational  outcomes  in  alignment  with  accreditation requirements and institutional mission.

• Continue to improve educational experience.

Goal 7: Create and promote a culturally competent and inclusive environment that fosters and supports a diverse community of faculty, staff, and learners and actively pursues to eliminate systemic racism within its programs.

• Increase cultural competence of PT students, faculty, and staff.

• Meet or exceed state and national Board of Certification (BOC) pass rates.
• Maintain a high graduation rate of AT students.

Goal 3: Create & provide high-quality educational programming conducive to learning & innovation while maintaining an environment that fosters ongoing development.

• Secure enhanced and diverse educational opportunities for AT students.

Goal 4: Enhance teaching excellence and commitment by providing practical resources, faculty development and support necessary to achieve the institution’s and faculty’s goals.

• Continue teaching excellence and commitment.

Goal 5: Provide and support opportunities for high quality scholarly activities and training experiences.

• Increase student participation in research and scholarly activities.

Goal 6: Ensure the physical infrastructure and educational support resources necessary to  produce  exceptional  learning  experiences  and  educational  outcomes  in  alignment  with  accreditation requirements and institutional mission.

• Determine best organizational alignment allowing faculty, student, and staff to have educational support and resources.

Goal 7: Create and promote a culturally competent and inclusive environment that fosters and supports a diverse community of faculty, staff, and learners and actively pursues to eliminate systemic racism within its programs.

• Fully integrate health disparities information, inclusive language education, and global cultural competence across curriculums.

Goal 1: Attract the best and brightest learners from a diverse pool of highly qualified applicants.

• Recruit and matriculate student cohorts with admission metrics (GPA, admissions test scores) at or above the national average for PA programs.

Goal 2: Provide a nurturing and supportive environment that strives for excellence academically, professionally, and personally.

• Ensure student support services which limit student attrition and facilitate on-time graduation.

Goal 3: Create & provide high-quality educational programming conducive to learning & innovation while maintaining an environment that fosters ongoing development.

• Enhance participation by PA students in interprofessional exercises.

Goal 4: Enhance teaching excellence and commitment by providing practical resources, faculty development and support necessary to achieve the institution’s and faculty’s goals.

• Enhance annual participation by PT faculty in institutional faculty development programs.
• Enhance attendance by program faculty at regional or national educational conferences.

Goal 5: Provide and support opportunities for high quality scholarly activities and training experiences.

• Create opportunities for all PA students in participate in scholarly activities.

Goal 6: Ensure the physical infrastructure and educational support resources necessary to  produce  exceptional  learning  experiences  and  educational  outcomes  in  alignment  with  accreditation requirements and institutional mission.

• Maintain physical infrastructure for program educational and administrative functions in alignment with ARC-PA accreditation standards.