Students play a significant role in ensuring WUSM has a successful LCME accreditation process and survey visit. Students lead the independent student analysis survey, there are student representatives on the institutional self-study teams and students will play an active role during the site visit.
Independent Student Analysis (ISA)
Students conduct an independent student analysis (ISA) of the medical education program. The ISA team has been selected and is underway with preparing surveys to gather opinions of our educational program about the program’s performance in accreditation elements, strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement from their peers.
ISA Team Leads:
- Kendall Burks
- Stanley Chibueze
- Sarah Cohen
ISA Team:
- Amrita Bhat
- James Berry
- Kwasi Enin
- Will Freeman
- MaeMae Huang
- Yupeng Liu
- Joshua Perez-Cruet
- Priyanka Pullarkat
- Chase Renfroe
- Tara Suresh
Institutional Self-Study
Conducting the institutional self-study and preparing for the survey team’s visit to the medical school take a significant amount of effort and participation by many members of the medical education community, including students. The institutional self-study task force reviews and analyzes the information in the data collection instrument, ISA, and AAMC graduation questionnaire to produce a self-study summary report. Based upon its analysis, the task force develops a comprehensive, self-study summary report that identifies the most notable strengths and accomplishments of the program, the challenges that it faces related to performance in accreditation elements, and the strategies that have been or will be used to address the challenges. Members of the institutional self-study found here.
Accreditation Site Visit
After the medical school’s self-study and the ISA have been completed and submitted, the survey team begins to review the school’s survey package, and the survey team secretary works with the program’s faculty accreditation lead to develop the schedule for the survey visit. The survey visit agenda usually will include two student meetings, one with pre-clerkship phase students and the other with clerkship phase students.
The sessions with students allow for informal and open discussions about the medical school. One purpose of these meetings, from the survey team’s point of view, is to identify and reconcile, if possible, any differences in student opinion between the ISA and the AAMC GQ and between those surveys and the institutional self-study.
During on-site visits, a few medical students guide the survey team on tours of classrooms, laboratories, the library, and computer learning and/or testing facilities, lounge and relaxation areas, and study space. Students also may serve as guides if the survey team tours one or more teaching hospitals or ambulatory care sites. These tours provide an informal opportunity for students to share information and opinions with the survey team. As it does during meetings with students, the survey team interprets what it learns during tours in the context of other information obtained before or during the survey visit. Members of the institutional self-study found here.