About St. Luke School of Medicine

COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE

EDUCATION MISSION

St. Luke School of Medicine is a community of scholars dedicated to the highest standards of excellence in education, research, and health care. St. Luke School of Medicine’s mission is to educate physicians in the scientific, ethical, and humanistic dimensions of medicine and to advance our ability to diagnose, treat, and prevent human illness. In pursuit of this mission, St. Luke School of Medicine strives to:

EDUCATION
• Provide a comprehensive medical education al all levels based on a meaningful integration of the basic sciences with the clinical disciplines.
• Foster innovative approaches to medical education based on collegial interaction between students and faculty.

RESEARCH
• Support research at the forefront of medical science, health care delivery, and public health policy.
• Provide an environment that sustains and fosters collaborative interaction between basic and clinical scientists.
• Facilitate transfer of new discoveries and technology to enhance patient care and health care delivery.

HEALTH CARE
• Promote a standard of excellence in health care in Liberia, Africa through the development of a community of researchers and health care providers.
• Encourage our students and faculty to participate in and assume leadership roles in their scientific and medical communities so as to advance the quality of health care in Liberia.
• Respond to the needs of increasingly diverse student, faculty, physician, and patient populations as the School of Medicine prepares to meet the challenges of an ever challenging health care environment.

St. Luke School of Medicine has two major goals for its graduates: that they be broadly and liberally educated men and women, and that they view medicine as a socially responsible human service profession.

St. Luke School of Medicine seeks students who regard medicine as a noble profession rather than a trade to be learned, as a humanitarian pursuit, as well as a scholarly discipline, and as a unique lifetime experience. St. Luke School of Medicine graduates must be well-rounded, scientifically grounded, but also capable of approaching problems from a variety of perspectives, drawing upon the methods of analysis of the humanist, the social scientist and the behavioral scientist. St. Luke School of Medicine intend that our students follow in the tradition of medicine, placing the welfare of their patients and society above self-interest. St. Luke School of Medicine teaches its students to prepared to meet the technologic innovations of the present and future.

St. Luke School of Medicine ensures that it’s M.D. recipients are exposed to a wide, sensitizing view of the human condition from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The result is a "liberal" medical education supported by the entire faculty of a great institution which does honor to the great disciple from which the Medical School derives its name. This is our educational mission.

To these aims we do strive.
June, 1998