The Domains and Action Areas of Social Mission
The Social Mission Metrics Self-Assessment provides a standardized approach to measure social mission at a dental, medical, and nursing schools. The Self-Assessment is divided into five domains, further broken into 17 Social Mission Areas.
While each action area is primarily categorized into one domain, some of them are cross cutting and apply to multiple domains.
Domains
- Socially Accountable Leadership: administrators of health profession schools setting policies, practices, and programming demonstrative of equity and justice principles, and responsive to community priorities.
- Action Areas: Strategic Plan, Faculty & Leadership Demographics, Faculty Promotion
- Commitment to Community: community-responsive, community-inclusive, and community-driven practices.
- Action Areas: Community Engagement, Evaluation, Faculty Pathways
- Equitable Expansion of the Health Workforce: demonstrating strategies to improve geographic distribution of trainees/providers, sociocultural diversity of trainees/providers, and volume and distribution of primary care workforce.
- Action Areas: Student Pathway Programs, Admissions, Graduation
- Transformative Curriculum & Programming: curriculum and training practices focused on producing a robust, well-trained, service-oriented workforce.
- Action Areas: Competencies, Primary Care Training, Service-Learning & Community-Based Training, Curriculum Review, Community-Led Research
- Supportive School Ecosystems: inclusive practices that foster flourishing of all staff, faculty, and learners.
- Action Areas: Faculty Activism, Student Activism, Retention & Success Strategies
