Do Medical School Mission Statements Align With the Nation’s Health Care Needs?

Valsangkar, Bina; Chen, Candice; Wohltjen, Hannah; Mullan, Fitzhugh

doi:10.1097/acm.0000000000000241

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“…These themes identified in the US pharmacy schools are consistent with the contemporary functions of any higher or professional education setting, such as education and training for developing a highly qualified workforce, producing knowledge via research, and providing service to society at large. The findings are consistent with the mission statements of US medical schools, which reflect a tripartite focus to train future physicians, serve as research institutions, and provide medical care through affiliated hospitals and clinics (Valsangkar et al, 2014).…”

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“…Deductive qualitative analysis was used during the review of vision and mission statements. A set of predefined codes was created based on the authors' knowledge of the pharmacy professional activities, ACPE 2016 standards, and published studies on textual analysis of mission statements ( Valsangkar et al, 2014;ACPE, 2016;Hafferty et al, 2019). Two authors independently reviewed each vision and mission statements.…”

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Focus of societal responsibility in the vision and mission statements of the United States pharmacy schools/ colleges

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Objective: To assess the prevalence of societal responsibility languages and themes on education, research, and professional service in pharmacy programmes’ vision and mission statements. Methods: The authors collected the vision and mission statements of 142 pharmacy programmes by visiting each programme’s website. The statements were compiled and uploaded in NVivo 12. Deductive qualitative analysis and a topic extraction method with embedded principal component analysis (WordStat 8) were used to identify thematic dimensions of the statements. The number of programmes citing the respective themes were recorded. A Chi-square test was used to statistically analyse the prevalence of themes between the programme categories. Results: Education, research, professional practice, and societal service emerged as prominent themes. The prevalence of research, professional practice, and leadership themes was significantly higher in the vision statements of public programmes than private programmes. In the mission statements, the citation of a research theme was significantly higher in public programmes than private programmes. The citations of serving the diverse population and underserved population were very limited in the vision (6% and 5%) and mission statements (11% and 6%). Topic analysis conformed to the identified prominent themes and lack of societal responsibility theme in the mission statements. Conclusions: The prominent themes included education, research, and professional service to society at large. There is a distinctive lack of citations of societal responsibility towards underserved populations in the vision and mission statements.

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“…Using generic terminology provides limited information to stakeholders and provides little strategic direction (Bolan, 2005); however, when mission statements completely omit prominent issues (e.g. health equity), it clearly indicates that a particular issue is not embraced as a priority (Valsangkar, Chen, Wohltjen & Mullan, 2014). A more recent direction for mission statements is to write for end users (i.e.…”

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Equity, Anti-Racism and Social Justice: Mission Statements, Vision and Values of British Columbia’s Health Delivery System

Kang-Dhillon¹,

Varcoe²,

Reimer‐Kirkham³

et al. 2020

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Background Framed by a universal healthcare philosophy, publically funded Canadian healthcare delivery organizations are presumed to provide primary care for all residents. However, despite this universal coverage, healthcare inequity is evidenced for non-dominant racialized patients and healthcare providers. Methods To examine the diversity commitments of healthcare delivery organizations in British Columbia, we analyzed mission statements, visions and values with a list of 23 health equity markers. Results Our findings reveal that health equity for racialized non-dominant communities is not prioritized in the mission, vision or value statements for 7 of the 8 healthcare delivery organizations. Conclusion The absence of these markers reaffirms that anti-racist ideologies are not conceptualized into the institutional identities of British Columbia’s healthcare delivery organizations. Further, without an anti-racism equity framework embedded into institutional identity, organizations have a limited ability to meaningfully address inequities experienced by racialized non-dominant patients and healthcare providers. We recommend that healthcare delivery organizations review and revise their guiding documents with a lens of equity, social justice and cultural safety; and to incorporate education for all healthcare leadership and staff through the lens of anti-racist pedagogy.

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“…Although including diversity and other emerging themes, such as social justice or health equity, in a mission statement does not guarantee results, omitting them may suggest that the institution has not fully, if at all, embraced these issues. 9 When public commitments to social justice or social determinants of health are not present, physician graduates are less likely to choose to practice in underserved areas or help underserved populations. 10 As such, to embrace societal responsibilities, institutions need to be proponents of diversity and inclusion, encourage their students to serve all patients, and embrace health equity.…”

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Levers of change: a review of contemporary interventions to enhance diversity in medical schools in the USA

Vick¹,

Baugh²,

Lambert³

et al. 2018

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A growing body of research illustrates the importance of aligning efforts across the operational continuum to achieve diversity goals. This alignment begins with the institutional mission and the message it conveys about the priorities of the institution to potential applicants, community, staff, and faculty. The traditional themes of education, research, and service dominate most medical school mission statements. The emerging themes of physician maldistribution, overall primary-care physician shortage, diversity, and cost control are cited less frequently. The importance and salience of having administrative leaders with an explicit commitment to workforce and student diversity is a prominent and pivotal factor in the medical literature on the subject. Organizational leadership shapes the general work climate and expectations concerning diversity, recruitment, and retention. Following the Bakke decision, individual medical schools, supported by the Association of American Medical Colleges, worked to expand the frame of reference for evaluating applicants for medical school. These efforts have come together under the rubric of “holistic review”, permitted by the US Supreme Court in 2003. A large diverse-applicant pool is needed to ensure the appropriate candidates can be chosen for the incoming medical school class. Understanding the optimal rationale and components for a successful recruitment program is important. Benchmarking with other schools regionally and nationally will identify what should be the relative size of a pool. Diversity is of compelling interest to us all, and should pervade all aspects of higher education, including admissions, the curriculum, student services and activities, and our faculties. The aim of medical education is to cultivate a workforce with the perspectives, aptitudes, and skills needed to fuel community-responsive health-care institutions. A commitment toward diversity needs to be made.

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Do Medical School Mission Statements Align With the Nation’s Health Care Needs?

Cited by 29 publications

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Focus of societal responsibility in the vision and mission statements of the United States pharmacy schools/ colleges

Focus of societal responsibility in the vision and mission statements of the United States pharmacy schools/ colleges

Equity, Anti-Racism and Social Justice: Mission Statements, Vision and Values of British Columbia’s Health Delivery System

Levers of change: a review of contemporary interventions to enhance diversity in medical schools in the USA

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