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Element 4.6: Responsibility for Medical School Policies
Element 4.6 - Responsibility for Medical School Policies At a medical school, the dean and a committee of relevant medical school administrators and faculty representatives determine the governance and policymaking processes within their purview. Hidden Curriculum...
Element 3.1: Resident Participation in Medical Student Education
Element 3.1 - Resident Participation in Medical Student Education Each medical student in a medical education program participates in one or more required clinical experiences conducted in a health care setting in which he or she works with resident physicians...
Element 2.4: Sufficiency of Administrative Staff
Element 2.4 - Sufficiency of Administrative Staff A medical school has in place a sufficient number of associate or assistant deans, leaders of organizational units, and senior administrative staff who are able to commit the time necessary to accomplish effectively...
Element 1.3: Mechanisms for Faculty Participation
LCME Element 1.3 - Mechanisms for Faculty Participation A medical school ensures that there are effective mechanisms in place for direct faculty participation in decision-making related to the medical education program, including opportunities for faculty...
Element 12.3: Personal Counseling/Mental Health/Well-Being Programs
LCME Element 12-3 - Personal Counseling/Mental Health/Well-Being Programs A medical school has in place an effective system of counseling services for its medical students that includes programs to promote their well-being and to facilitate their adjustment to the...
Element 11.3: Oversight of Extramural Electives
Element 11.3 - Oversight of Extramural Electives If a medical student at a medical school is permitted to take an elective under the auspices of another medical school, institution, or organization, a centralized system exists in the dean’s office at the home school...
Element 10.2: Final Authority of Admissions Committee
LCME Element 10.2 - Final Authority of Admissions Committee The final responsibility for accepting students to a medical school rests with a formally constituted admission committee. The authority and composition of the committee and the rules for its operation,...
Element 9.8: Fair and Timely Summative Assessment
LCME Element 9.8 - Fair and Timely Summative Assessment A medical school has in place a system of fair and timely summative assessment of medical student achievement in each course and clerkship of the medical education program. Final grades are available within six...
Element 8.8: Monitoring Student Time
Element 8.8 - Monitoring Student Time The medical school faculty committee responsible for the medical curriculum and the program’s administration and leadership ensure the development and implementation of effective policies and procedures regarding the amount of...
Element 7.1: Biomedical, Behavioral, Social Sciences
Element 7.1 - Biomedical, Behavioral, Social Sciences The faculty of a medical school ensure that the medical curriculum includes content from the biomedical, behavioral, and socioeconomic sciences to support medical students' mastery of contemporary medical science...
Element 6.2: Required Clinical Experiences
Element 6.2 - Required Clinical Experiences The faculty of a medical school define the types of patients and clinical conditions that medical students are required to encounter, the skills to be performed by medical students, the appropriate clinical settings for...
Element 5.11: Study/Lounge/Storage Space/Call Rooms
Element 5.11 - Study/Lounge/Storage Space/Call Rooms A medical school ensures that its medical students at each campus and affiliated clinical site have adequate study space, lounge areas, personal lockers or other secure storage facilities, and secure call rooms if...