Vision
The Medical Partnership will be:
• Recognized as a premier medical school campus
• A leader in medical education by delivering an innovative curriculum that integrates cutting-edge technology and health informatics
• Outstanding in providing an educational environment that engages students, faculty, and staff to learn and work
• A leader in research and scholarship
Mission
The Medical Partnership will have an unwavering commitment to educating excellent physicians, to providing outstanding health care to Georgians, to improving access to care, and to generating new knowledge relevant to human health and disease.
The mission will be accomplished by:
• Making our learners our highest priority
• Providing leadership in the communities we serve
• Building strong community partnerships
• Teaching lifelong learning skills
• Hiring and retaining exceptional and diverse faculty and staff by supporting professional development
• Fostering excellence, innovation, and scholarship in education and research
• Teaching the skills necessary to practice with modern technology to meet the challenges of the 21st century practice of medicine
• Providing a catalyst for developing collaborative partnerships in clinical/translational research among AU, UGA, and Athens’ medical community investigators
Values
The mission is achieved through shared values:
- Integrity
- Respect
- Community engagement
- Open, honest, and effective communication
- Trust
- Collaboration
- Equity
- Accountability
- Leadership
- Transparency