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Achieving Campaign Objectives

The University of Michigan has outlined five main objectives for The Michigan Difference Campaign; they are:

• Fulfill the Promise of Science and Technology
• Enrich the Student Experience
• Inspire a Life of Arts and Culture
• Advance Health and Society’s Well-Being
• Prepare Leaders for the Local and Global Community

Each of these objectives has relevance within the Health System.

Advancing health and society’s well-being and fulfilling the promise of science and technology can be viewed as the core missions of the Health System.

Enriching the student experience and preparing leaders for the local and global community are integral to the teaching mission of the Health System. As one of the leading academic medical research institutions in America, the Health System plays a large role in helping to create the leadership for the future of medicine in America.

Pamela Andreatta, assistant professor of medical education and director of the Clinical Simulation Center, where residents and medical students practice procedures on lifelike mannequins Photo: Martin Vloet

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the nationally recognized accrediting authority for medical education programs leading to the M.D. degree in U.S. and Canadian medical schools, recently gave high praise to the forward-thinking curriculum of the Medical School.

The campaign objective of inspiring a life of arts and culture applies less directly to the Health System, but it should be noted that the rich cultural and artistic offerings on the University of Michigan campus are a source of great enrichment for those engaged in the work of the Health System, and contribute significantly to the Health System’s ability to recruit and retain top physicians, medical scientists and others to the University.

In addition, collaborations across the scientific and non-scientific disciplines may lead to further understandings of the mind-body connection and the ways in which arts and culture contribute to health-sustaining and healing processes.