The mission of the Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota is to provide the opportunity for South Dakota residents to receive a quality, broad-based medical education with an emphasis on family practice. The curriculum is to be established to encourage graduates to serve people living in the medically underserved areas of South Dakota, and is to require excellence in the basic sciences and in all clinical disciplines.
The Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota is to provide to its students and to the people of South Dakota excellence in education, research and service. To these ends, the School is to provide educational pathways leading to both the Doctor of Medicine and the Doctor of Philosophy Degrees; and Quality health care for the people of South Dakota is addressed by undergraduate, graduate and continuing educational programs as well as by basic and applied medical research. The School of Medicine should serve as a technical resource in the development of health care policy in the state and provide extension and research initiatives to improve the health care of the citizens of the state.
And I have become amazed at the levels of deviation that have occurred in the completion of the education mission mandated to this school. As we have already discussed in earlier posts the qualifications of the School of Medicine faculty are dismal. In fact, I would go as far as saying that a majority of the School of Medicine (PhD) faculty are UNQUALIFIED to sit in their academic positions (Prof. Schlenker is excluded).
This faculty has FAILED in its primary mission to educate and guarantee that Family Practice physicians are educated and return to South Dakota, especially areas of SD that are medically under-served. Analysis of the residency positions of the University of South Dakota School of Medicine graduates confirms that ONLY 24% of total graduates (years 2000-2009) have placed into Family Practice/Pediatrics residencies (121/500 students). If the analysis excludes Pediatrics from the calculation then the Family Practice disposition becomes a dismal ~ 12%. By no means is the State of South Dakota or the Citizens of South Dakota being effectively served by this medical school.
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The faculty do not meet the mandate of excellence in the basic sciences nor do they approach the mandate of excellence in research. In short, this faculty is UNQUALIFIED to make the decisions they are charged with!
It is time for the Citizens of South Dakota to contact their State Legislators and DEMAND that oversight is implemented into the USD School of Medicine. South Dakota is in a HEALTH CARE CRISIS ... As bad as it gets ... And it is time that WE hold the administration of this university responsible to the principles that WE AS SOUTH DAKOTANS commanded our State Legislature to enact and our Governor to UPHOLD. The abhorred state of our State's medical crisis lies directly on the shoulders of this medical school and those administrators charged with the responsibilities of safe-guarding our medical care. STAND UP South Dakota and lets TAKE BACK OUR Medical School!
The Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota is to provide to its students and to the people of South Dakota excellence in education, research and service. To these ends, the School is to provide educational pathways leading to both the Doctor of Medicine and the Doctor of Philosophy Degrees; and Quality health care for the people of South Dakota is addressed by undergraduate, graduate and continuing educational programs as well as by basic and applied medical research. The School of Medicine should serve as a technical resource in the development of health care policy in the state and provide extension and research initiatives to improve the health care of the citizens of the state.
And I have become amazed at the levels of deviation that have occurred in the completion of the education mission mandated to this school. As we have already discussed in earlier posts the qualifications of the School of Medicine faculty are dismal. In fact, I would go as far as saying that a majority of the School of Medicine (PhD) faculty are UNQUALIFIED to sit in their academic positions (Prof. Schlenker is excluded).
This faculty has FAILED in its primary mission to educate and guarantee that Family Practice physicians are educated and return to South Dakota, especially areas of SD that are medically under-served. Analysis of the residency positions of the University of South Dakota School of Medicine graduates confirms that ONLY 24% of total graduates (years 2000-2009) have placed into Family Practice/Pediatrics residencies (121/500 students). If the analysis excludes Pediatrics from the calculation then the Family Practice disposition becomes a dismal ~ 12%. By no means is the State of South Dakota or the Citizens of South Dakota being effectively served by this medical school.
.
The faculty do not meet the mandate of excellence in the basic sciences nor do they approach the mandate of excellence in research. In short, this faculty is UNQUALIFIED to make the decisions they are charged with!
It is time for the Citizens of South Dakota to contact their State Legislators and DEMAND that oversight is implemented into the USD School of Medicine. South Dakota is in a HEALTH CARE CRISIS ... As bad as it gets ... And it is time that WE hold the administration of this university responsible to the principles that WE AS SOUTH DAKOTANS commanded our State Legislature to enact and our Governor to UPHOLD. The abhorred state of our State's medical crisis lies directly on the shoulders of this medical school and those administrators charged with the responsibilities of safe-guarding our medical care. STAND UP South Dakota and lets TAKE BACK OUR Medical School!
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