The Associate Dean for Basic Sciences welcomes you to the Web Site. Our primary goal is to impart our students during their first and second years of Medicine the skills and knowledge, they can apply during the clinical years.
We offer an advanced educational program in the basic sciences. The program for the first two years is structured in a manner which will make our students conscious of the health needs of our country, led them to an awareness of their responsibilities as public servants, educators, and leaders in the community, and develop in him the capacity for critical thinking which will enable them to improve prevailing conditions.
With this philosophy of education our School will produce graduates who will fulfill its stated mission with the highest moral and ethical principles. For those of you interested in studying Medicine in Puerto Rico, Escuela de Medicina San Juan Bautista extends its warmest welcome.
Functions
The Associate Dean for Basic Sciences is responsible for student's promotion, guidance, maintenance and evaluation, and viability of the School curriculum. His duties and responsibilities shall be as follows:
- To advise and inform the Academic Dean, generally and specifically, on all academic affairs, new educational developments, technologies and systems.
- To initiate, promote, and enforce norms and standards for academic personnel and academic programs.
- To call and preside over Faculty meetings of his Deanship.
- To coordinate all academic programs and related activities of his deanship to ensure the strengthening and development of academic affairs.
- To conduct an ongoing evaluation of academic programs, directing improvements and necessary adjustments, and reporting the resulting to the Academic Dean.
- Submit to the Academic Dean, the budget proposals from the deanship.
- To recommend to the Academic Dean the appointments of new Faculty members.
- To initiate, promote, supervise, and report to the Academic Dean all efforts to upgrade the quality of the teaching staff.
- To perform other related duties, as delegated by the Academic Dean.
Action Plan
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
I. Rationale
The present and anticipated Financial Resources of a Medical School must be adequate to sustain a sound program of faculty development. This program should be supported from diverse sources, including income from tuition, endowments, grants from organizations and individuals, and appropriations by government. Undue pressure for institutional self-financing must not compromise the educational mission of the medical school.
Members of the faculty must have the capability and continued commitment to be effective teachers. Effective teaching requires knowledge of the discipline and an understanding of curricular design and pedagogy. The administration and the faculty should understand and employ methods to assess student performance that show the extent to which stated educational objectives are achieved.
Persons appointed to a faculty position must have demonstrated achievements within their disciplines commensurate with their faculty rank. The recruitment and development of a medical school's faculty should take into account its mission, the diversity of its student body, and the populations that it serves. It is expected that faculty members will have a commitment to continuing scholarly productivity, thereby contributing to the educational environment of the medical school.
II. Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Promote the integration of computer technology in the schools curriculum.
Objetive 1.1: The program will offer several workshops on basic training in computer technology.
Objetive 1.2: Follow-up on the needs of professors already using computer technology for their classroom/lab. presentations.
Objetive 1.3: The program will provide individual instruction on the computer technology integration to the curriculum.
Goal 2: Improve teaching effectiveness on student's learning.
Objective 2.1: The program will conduct a series of activities centered on teaching and learning.