# Placing education at the core of what we do

**Source**: https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/about/cumming-school-medicine/our-priorities/placing-education-core-what-we-do
**Parent**: https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/

### We inspire, support and advocate for our learners to be skilled professionals,   leaders and critical thinkers.

### Objectives

1. Canadian medical school leader in educational experience
2. Value research and teaching faculty equally
3. Expand capacity to train medical learners in distributed sites throughout southern Alberta

### Principles

- Promote educators and empower learners
- Value all education programs equally throughout CSM
- Value educational scholarship on par with research productivity
- Acknowledge clinical faculty as vital to the teaching mission of the school
- Develop education specific metrics for faculty success and promotion
- Recruit and retain a population of diverse learners and faculty
- Attend to the learner voice and elevate the learner experience
- Integrate anti-racism, anti-oppression, Indigenous content and pedagogy, and EDIA in all curricula

## Strategies

### **1.      Attend to the learner voice and elevate the learner experience**

- Deliberate and proactive inclusion of learner feedback in curricula development, policy development and approval, priority setting for learners and education for CSM more broadly
- Equal access to resources for learners in different education programs (ie. counselling, career guidance, rest spaces, lounge access)

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### **2.     Establish safe reporting mechanisms for concerns in the learning and working environment**

- Develop and/or expand safe avenues for disclosure in the learning and working environment
- Engage learners and faculty with the [**Protected Disclosure and Research Integrity office**](https://www.ucalgary.ca/pdri) (PDRI)
- Establish a robust Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) process that regularly reviews processes, barriers to reporting and outcomes

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### **3.     Enhance accessibility of all CSM programs to diverse members of our community**

- Further develop pathways for admissions to all education programs
- Increase rural applicants and develop a more direct pathway to practice rural medicine
- All CSM education programs to conduct regular review of admissions pathways
- Work toward achieving a learner population that reflects our diverse communities

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### **4.     Education programs proactively address EDIA and anti-racism in their curricula**

- Programs commit to regular review of curricula and teaching materials to ensure EDIA and anti-racism is incorporated
- Educational leadership engages with leaders in EDIA and anti-racism
- Principles reflected in parallel admissions pathways incorporated into all education programs

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### **5.     Value of teaching recognized by equitable remuneration and metrics for promotion**

- Develop education specific metrics for faculty success and promotion
- Work with CSM and university leadership to create equivalent remuneration for faculty appointed in the teaching and research domain
- Contributions of clinical teachers are equally valued and recognized
- Survey clinical faculty regarding teaching roles and relationship with CSM
- Equitable remuneration for academic and clinical faculty for teaching activities
- Scholarship in education valued on par with scientific research in pathway to promotion and as a career track

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### **6.     Research and scholarship in medical education regarded as academic work and supported by CSM**

- Financial and infrastructure support to recruit and retain scholars in medical education with the goal of building a robust community of medical education researchers
- Recognition of educational scholarship as a viable path to academic career promotion for faculty members
- Support for learners to develop experience in education, research/scholarship

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