The University of Michigan Medical School fosters a visionary culture. The changes proposed in our curriculum transformation reflected our efforts to attract, encourage, and reward those who have grand ideas and wish to improve the world of medicine.
Once we defined why we needed to change our approach to medical education, we looked to how we would begin the process of doing so.
Transforming a curriculum that has been in place for 160+ years requires a significant amount of planning, coordination, lively exchanges, proposals, votes, and meetings, meetings, meetings. In the end, this process brought together more than 200 faculty, students and staff committed to the same cause.