Community & Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership

We commit to:

1. Creating a structured and purposeful partnership in action between Schulich, and our communities and health care structures that is collaborative, interdependent and reciprocal through:

  • Collaborative models of care embedded in our communities

 

2. Engaging with, learning from, and impacting our regional communities to address priority health care and social needs in these communities through:

  • Identification of priority & underserved populations
  • Leadership and innovations in our clinical services, advocacy, research and education activities.
  • New knowledge and knowledge translation across the life spectrum including chronic diseases, in order to optimize life-long health.

 

3. Graduating a professional workforce with a mix of competencies that include delivering efficient, equitable and high quality health care and ability to address evolving and priority provincial, national and global health care issues through:

  • Recruitment and selection of applicants from our communities with greatest health care needs
  • Innovation in and delivery of an enriched patient and population-centred service-based curriculum that addresses and supports these learner competencies
  • Development and strengthening of educational programs in public/population health and social determinants of health (includes political, cultural, social, economic & environmental) that are locally relevant and have a global perspective
  • Integration of foundational and application sciences with population health and social sciences
  • Increased early clinical experiences with clinical relevance which highlight the visual impact of the social environment on health
  • Creation of collaborative models of education with our communities through Service Learning and Special Interest Groups
  • Supporting and strengthening our distributed education model
  • Building community placements in underserved areas to positively impact learning and attitudes of students
  • Recruitment of community-based practitioners as teachers and mentors

 

4. Supporting our faculty and leaders to:

  • Enact our School’s vision of social accountability
  • Champion our social accountability values
  • Grow shared understanding of social accountability individually, in organizations and communities
  • Collaborate within a community of practice for social accountability