Social Mission Metrics Initiative

The Domains and 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

  1. Socially Accountable Leadership
  2. Commitment to Community
  3. Equitable Expansion of the Health Workforce
  4. Transformative Curriculum & Programming
  5. Supportive School Ecosystems

Action Areas

  1. Strategic Plan
  2. Engagement
  3. Evaluation
  4. Student Pathways
  5. Admissions
  6. Retention & Success Strategies
  7. Graduation
  8. Primary Care Training
  9. Service-Learning & Community-Based Training
  10. Competencies
  11. Curriculum Review
  12. Faculty & Leadership Demographics
  13. Faculty Promotion
  14. Research
  15. Faculty Activism
  16. Faculty Pathways
  17. Student Activism 

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