Concept, Vision, Mission, and Goal of a Medical School
CONCEPT, VISION, MISSION, AND GOAL OF A MEDICAL SCHOOL
Reynaldo O. Joson, MD, MHA, MHPEd
* The Board of Trustees and the Dean work through the Faculty,
who in turn work through the Students,
who in turn work through the Community Citizenry and Leaders,
to achieve the goal of Health Development and
Solution of Health Problems of the Community.
* A community is assigned to a faculty or a group of faculty as
its area of responsibility. The faculty plans, implements,
and evaluates a health development program for his assigned
community. He accomplishes his task with the aid of the
students assigned to him as well as with a community preceptor
(usually a municipal health officer).
COMPETENT PHYSICIANS
CRITERIA:
- Effective, efficient, and humane physicians
- Effective and efficient community health problem solvers
- Effective and efficient health administrators
- Effective and efficient health teachers
- Effective and efficient health learners
- Effective and efficient health researchers
* The faculty with the help of the students tries to attain the
goal of health development of a community through a PRIMARY
HEALTH CARE APPROACH, banking on PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT and
MULTISECTORAL COOPERATION.
Health development means developing a community which is
economically and socially productive.
For a community to be economically and socially productive,
majority, if not all, of the people and families living in the
community must be economically and socially productive.
For the individuals and families to be economically and
socially productive, they should be without diseases and they
should have physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being.
There will always be health problems in a community and in
the people and families living in it. There is no such thing as
zero health problems.
Solving the health problems of a community means eradicating
diseases which are preventable and minimizing and avoiding death
and disability from nonpreventable as well as preventable
diseases.
ROJ@17sept13