Create Innovative Interdisciplinary Educational Programs

Penn Medicine is well positioned to offer innovative interdisciplinary educational programs. Two specific initiatives line up with this theme.

Develop a Medical Education Center for our 250th anniversary

We will design a Rafael Vinoly-inspired addition to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine with a goal of opening the new medical education center by 2015. The location of the classrooms in the center of the ambulatory care, faculty offices, translational research, and future inpatient care is a paradigm shift. This integrated home for medical education will be nationally unique.

Create a Penn Medicine Education Council

We will design novel education pathways and models for teaching and training future physicians and scientists to be effective in a changing world. We will emphasize team training, collaboration, interdisciplinary and inter-professional activities, online access, new media (e.g., Coursera) and reduced costs and time for training. We will prepare PhD and Master's students and postdoctoral fellows for a changing workforce environment by ensuring that educational initiatives are addressed in faculty recruitment and training programs. We will establish a Penn Medicine Education Council to operate this initiative and propose programmatic improvements and identify implementation strategies for change.