I.                    Statement of Institutional Commitment to Graduate Medical Education and Mission Statements

The ACGME requires a written statement of institutional commitment to GME that is supported by the governing authority, the administration, and the teaching staff. See CHM Statement of Institutional Commitment

http://gme.chm.msu.edu/gme/statementofcommitment05.pdf

A.                 College Mission

The mission of the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University

is to educate and develop exemplary physicians, create, and disseminate

new knowledge, and provide service to the people of the State through programs of education, research, and outreach that are:

1.             Integrated with and responsive to communities and their systems of health care,

2.             Focused on meeting the health care needs of patients, families, and communities,

3.             Considerate of the dignity, diversity, needs, and values of individual patients; and

4.             Responsive to the unmet needs of medically under-served populations.

Within the general mission of the College of Human Medicine, the College has programs of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education.

B.                 Graduate Medical Education Mission

1.                   The mission of the College of Human Medicine in graduate medical education is to provide Institutional Sponsorship to high quality programs of graduate medical education in those primary and specialty care disciplines relevant to the College’s mission. Such Graduate Medical Education Programs will be accomplished in concert with the teaching hospitals and health systems affiliated with the College. The GMEC will fulfill the responsibilities of the Committee as listed in The Graduate Medical Education Directory by the ACGME.  See page 4.

C.                Designated Institutional Official (DIO)

The Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education will be the Designated Institutional Official (DIO) with the authority and responsibility for the oversight and administration and administration of the graduate medical education programs sponsored by MSU.  The Director of Medical Education will be the Institutional Official delegated such oversight responsibility in the absence of, or as delegated by the Associate Dean.