This is accomplished in many ways, but with particular interest in three main areas: professional and personal development; reflective practice and patient-care experiences; and team-based learning and interdependence. While the results are evident throughout the U.S. with many NEOMED graduates in leadership positions, we need to make sure that our positions of strength remain relevant and sustainable as differentiators that bring positive change to medical education and care. Medical education needs to change. The two facets — basic and clinical sciences — are no longer enough to properly prepare health professionals to meet the needs of patients. A medical university’s competencies — education, research and service — are also not enough.

Health care is in a state of flux with the pursuit of the quadruple aim: patient experience, improved health, lowering costs of health care and reducing clinician and staff burnout. Health care’s operational model stands to be flipped before practitioners and administrators are trained to understand what it means.

From strength-based methods of change to analytics and coding, a third facet of training which doubles as a fourth organizational competency is needed: Leadership training in the business of health care.

We’re in a good place though. NEOMED alumni, faculty and staff already provide care, share knowledge and advance science ― transforming medical education and practice. And with NEOMED’s expressed focus areas which include Exceptional Experience; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Leadership; and People; our work will be sustainable as we are committed to diversity, innovation and collaboration in the way we teach and learn medical education, and in the way we practice and experience health care.

This is why we are #CreatingTransformationalLeaders. This is who we are.