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Welcome to the Office of Medical Education and Curricular Affairs (MECA)’s site.
A primary mission of the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) is to provide an innovative medical education that prepares students to take on their increasingly complex roles as physicians and physician-scientists. Below I highlight a few of MECA’s means of achieving this mission and invite you to explore more about each of these areas on our website.
- IUSM is a national leader in developing one of the first competency based curricula for Undergraduate Medical Education, providing our graduates the clinical, scientific and relational abilities they will need to care for patients, as well as a smooth transition to competency based curricula in Graduate Medical Education.
- IUSM has also established itself as a leader in the intentional development of our informal curriculum, or learning environment. Through our Relationship Centered Care Initiative (RCCI) IUSM has received external support to effect positive change in our institution’s professional culture and learning environment. To date over 1/5 of medical schools around the country, and schools across the world, have sent teams of medical education leaders to IUSM to learn about our initiative and to further the research and practice of medical school culture change.
- To support our competency curriculum across our nine campuses statewide and ensure ongoing curricular improvement, MECA has created an integrated technology infrastructure. This infrastructure enables the electronic capture of statewide course, instructor, and student performance evaluations, and the cataloging of the teaching and assessment components of the statewide competency based curriculum.
- MECA’s success in securing numerous competitive education grants has enabled ongoing educational innovation, which has been shared nationwide through national presentations and publications.
Your input and suggestions for additions or changes to this website and ways MECA can respond to our students’ and academic community’s needs are welcomed.
Most sincerely,
Debra K. Litzelman, MA, MD
Associate Dean for Medical Education and Curricular Affairs
Richard Powell Professor of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
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