Educational Quality Improvement Strategic Planning Committee (EQI SPC)
Welcome to the School of Medicine’s Educational Quality Improvement Strategic Planning Committee webpage! Here you will find information about the EQI SPC including meeting schedules, strategic plans, membership rosters, and meeting minutes.
The EQISP Committee, led by co-chairs Darryl Potyk and Mark Whipple, is charged with ensuring UWSOM is meeting its educational goals for medical student programs and achieving excellence and innovation in our learning programs. This translates to tracking metrics to meet our strategic plan goals, monitoring accreditation standards and areas in need of improvement, providing guidance and recommendations to school leadership on improvements to our programs and ensuring integration of teaching, research and patient care activities within the Medical Student Education Program.
The UWSOM Medical Student Education Program Strategic Plan was rewritten and approved in March 2022. To learn more about the mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities, you can view the plan here.
| Name | Title | Membership |
|---|---|---|
| Tania Bardyn | Associate Dean & Director Health Sciences Library | Voting |
| Sarah Busch | Medical Student | Voting |
| Hart Edmonson | Medical Student | Voting |
| Kellie Engle | Director of Curriculum | Voting |
| Kiran Gill | Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UWSOM Foundations Guide | Voting |
| Cindy Hamra | Associate Dean, Operations & Administration, GME | Voting |
| Margaret Isaac | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Faculty, Cascade College | Voting |
| Joshua Kern | VP of Medical Affairs, St. Luke's East Region; Program Director, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho Rural Program; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine | Voting |
| Allison Lambert | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Spokane Foundations Guide & Research Advisor | Voting |
| Zachary Matsko | Medical Student | Voting |
| Darryl Potyk | Associate Dean for Eastern Washington, UWSOM; Chief for Medical Education, UWSOM-Gonzaga University Regional Health Partnership; Associate Program Director, Providence Internal Medicine Residency Spokane | Voting |
| Leonida Radford | Medical Student | Voting |
| Emma Ryan | Medical Student | Voting |
| Karen Segerson | Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | Voting |
| David Sherman | Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology | Voting |
| Martin Teintze | Director, WWAMI Medical Education Program, Montana State University; Assistant Dean, Foundations Phase, UWSOM | Voting |
| Mark Whipple | Medical Director, OSCE; Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery; Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education | Voting |
| Suzanne Allen | Vice Dean for Academic, Rural and Regional Affairs | Ex-Officio |
| Sara Kim | Associate Dean for Educational Quality Improvement; Research Professor, Department of Surgery; George G. B. Bilsten Professor in the Art of Communication with Peers and Patients | Ex-Officio |
| Bessie Young | Vice Dean, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and Medical Director, Office of Healthcare Equity; Director, Justice, Equity, and Inclusion, Center for Transformational Research | Ex-Officio |
Mission Statement
The University of Washington School of Medicine Medical Student Education Program will improve the health of the public by educating inquisitive, compassionate, physicians who serve the evolving healthcare needs of the diverse individuals while striving for healthcare justice and equity.
Vision Statement
Empowering students to become the physicians they aspire to be through innovative regional medical education.
Values
The UWSOM MSEP Values will be integrated within our strategic priorities, outcomes, and decision- making to guide our path forward.
- Collaboration
- Excellence
- Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- Respect
- Stewardship
- Student Engagement & Leadership
Strategic Priorities
In order to achieve our Mission and Vision and to serve our students well, the MSEP will focus on the following Strategic Priorities over the next 5 years. These will be key drivers that drive us towards our Mission and Vision in an outcomes-based manner.
- Optimize the Medical Student Education Program governance structure and align resources to meet regional
- Foster collaborative and innovative regional medical education that recognizes the attributes of regional
- Become an inclusive and antiracist medical student education program that dismantles all types of oppression in the learning
- Instill a continuous quality improvement culture throughout UWSOM’s medical student education
- Support faculty and staff education and lifelong learning across the region to optimize teaching outcomes as well as fostering recruitment, retention, and recognition.
2022-2023 Academic Year Meeting Minutes
- August 2, 2022
- September 6, 2022
- October 4, 2022
- November 8, 2022
- December 6, 2022
- February 7, 2023
- March 7, 2023
- April 4, 2023
- May 2, 2023
- June 6, 2023
- July 11, 2023 (tentative)
EQISPC 22-23 Meeting Schedule
Meetings typically occur every 1st Tuesday from 1:00 pm-2:30 pm PST.
| June 7, 2022 |
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| August 2, 2022 |
| September 6, 2022 |
| October 4, 2022 |
| November 8, 2022 |
| December 6, 2022 |
| February 7, 2023 |
| March 7, 2023 |
| April 4, 2023 |
| May 2, 2023 |
| June 6, 2023 |
| July 11, 2023 (tentative) |