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About Us
Our goals and strategies
- Provide medical education which fosters excellence and
creativity and is responsive to community and professional
needs.
Strategies
- Provide and maintain a high standard of teaching and
learning resources for students and staff;
- Develop, deliver, evaluate and continually refine the
teaching resources; assist staff to make effective use of
information and educational technology;
- Support and promote information technology literacy among
students and facilitate learning by providing a range of
information technology services on and off campus;
- Ensure input to course development from appropriate professionals
to address the four curricular themes;
- Encourage and support a culture of continuous quality
improvement in teaching and staff development;
- Assess teaching and learning outcomes within the systematic
monitoring framework of the ANU;
- Develop a rural teaching capacity in surrounding New
South Wales; and
- Expand community based teaching capacity in the ACT.
- Provide a challenging and supportive environment in which
staff and students can realise their potential, develop their
skills and commit to lifelong learning.
Strategies
- Provide an appropriately coordinated support network
for a diverse national and international student population;
- Develop and implement a schedule for surveying students
and graduates about their course experiences;
- Recognise the value of lifelong learning in delivery
of education programs, and promote documented best practice
teaching procedures which encourage lifelong learning;
- Promote opportunities for professional development and
continuing education for medical graduates and academic
staff;
- Develop and maintain an environment which encourages
and supports staff and students to participate in research;
- Implement staff development programs that enhance educational
capacities;
- Implement performance and accountability measures, particularly
for senior academic and administrative staff; and
- Provide building access for disabled students, staff
and visitors.
- Deliver a curriculum, which is founded on principles
of biomedical, behavioural and social sciences and population
health, and is responsive to changes in medical knowledge
and teaching paradigms.
Strategies
- Introduce a thematic medical education program, the themes
being on medical sciences, clinical skills, population health
and professionalism and leadership;
- Ensure that the social sciences and medical humanities
are adequately integrated into all four themes;
- Establish the Assessment, Curriculum and Teaching Committee
(ACTion Committee), to ensure that the curriculum adequately
addressing students generic skills including communication
skills, critical appraisal of new medical information and
information technology skills;
- Promote an understanding of international health, of
human rights, of the impacts of globalisation and have a
multicultural perspective on health and health care;
- Understand the role and responsibility of the medical
profession as a contributor to public debate and policy
development on matters of broad social and international
importance;
- Have a community including rural and indigenous focus
and seeking input from these groups;
- Exercise an independent role in research and education
related to public policy and other national issues;
- Anticipate new academic disciplines driven by new research
knowledge and emerging technologies, and incorporation into
the curriculum; and
- Identify emerging health needs and incorporate knowledge
and skills towards their solution into the curriculum.
- Develop and sustain international links, encouraging
collaborations which provide mutual benefit to Australia and
partner countries.
Strategies
- Promote the Medical School as a gateway to Australia
for international collaborations in research and education;
- Support elective student opportunities during the fourth
year of the MBBS program, particularly in Asia, Europe and
North America; and
- Endeavour to involve international national and international
teaching collaborations in education and research programs.
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