KU School of Medicine-Wichita

28 Center for Research for Infant Birth & Survival is founded. The Active, Competency-based and Excellence-driven curriculum begins on the Wichita campus. The first class of ACE students will graduate in May 2021. 2017 2017 2017 KUSM-W takes over running the Simulation Center on campus. collaborate when treating a patient. To give students experience with that practice, "we have some interdisciplinary training that we do with Wichita State University and its physician assistant program, and we're hoping to encourage more of that," Minns said. The school also has an opportunity to grow its graduate medical oerings because of its partnerships with area hospitals, Minns said. KUSM-Wichita works with three area hospital systems: Ascension Via Christi, Wesley Medical Center and the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center. KUSM-Wichita oers more than a dozen fully accredited residency and fellowship programs. curriculum and diversity eorts Three years ago, a new curriculum went into eect for students at all three campuses of KU's medical school (Wichita, Salina and Kansas City). The ACE curriculum — which stands for active, competency-based and excellence-driven — focuses on giving the next generation of physicians the types of skills and competencies needed in today's practices and health care settings, according to Scott Moser, M.D., KUSM-Wichita's associate dean for curriculum. The new curriculum includes more teamwork activities, more clinical experiences and deals with physician wellness to address rising physician burnout rates. This spring, KUSM-Wichita will graduate its first class under the ACE curriculum, and board exam data is showing the curriculum change at KU didn't result in lower scores, as is often the case when a medical school under- goes a curriculum overhaul, Moser said. "Our students under ACE have received their scores for the second- and third-year national board exams, and both the pass rate and the mean score of all students have gone up measurably," Moser said. Data like that will prove useful as KUSM-Wichita prepares for an accreditation site visit in October 2021 with the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. LCME is the accrediting body for all medical schools in the U.S. and Canada and is sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association. Parts of the curriculum — and even recruiting eorts — are still under the microscope, however, at KUSM-Wichita. "For some time, we've been addressing issues of cultural humility and understanding racial issues in our culture and their impact on health care and the social determinants of health," Moser said. "But, of course, the George Floyd situation this last spring just really got everyone's attention that maybe we're not doing enough fast enough. "This is something we've been very serious about and have gotten more serious about in the past few months. This isn't just talk." As committees "get deep into the curriculum" to address cultural bias, already one policy has been implemented that changes the longtime practice of including a patient's race and/or ethnicity when students are presenting the patient's case to others on the medical care team, Moser said. Including a racial or ethnic identifier from the start of the patient's care has been likened to racial profiling in health care. The new policy notes that such identifiers should be determined by the patient and be recorded in their medical history.

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