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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...
Element 4.5: Faculty Professional Development
Element 4.5 - Faculty Professional Development A medical school and/or its sponsoring institution provides opportunities for professional development to each faculty member in the areas of discipline content, curricular design, program evaluation, student assessment...
Element 3.2: Community of Scholars/Research Opportunities
Element 3.2 - Community of Scholars/Research Opportunities A medical education program is conducted in an environment that fosters the intellectual challenge and spirit of inquiry appropriate to a community of scholars and provides sufficient opportunities,...
Element 2.3: Access and Authority of the Dean
Element 2.3 - Access and Authority of the Dean The dean of a medical school has sufficient access to the university president or other institutional official charged with final responsibility for the medical school and to other institutional officials in order to...
Element 1.1: Focusing on Continuous Quality Improvement
LCME Element 1.1 - Focusing on Continuous Quality Improvement A medical school engages in ongoing strategic planning and continuous quality improvement processes that establish its short and long-term programmatic goals, result in the achievement of measurable...