Clinical and Community Affairs

I. Office of Clinical Affairs

The Office of Clinical Affairs (OCA) is a fairly nascent business unit of the CDU College of Medicine that was created to provide vehicles to carry out the mission, vision and goal of CDU for actual provision of excellent and compassionate clinical services and commitment to promote wellness and transformation of the health of diverse and underserved communities.

The Office of Clinical Affairs consists of three (3) components as follows:

• Affiliations
  
  In conjunction with the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program, the OCA continues to develop and maintain affiliations/partnerships with hospitals and health systems to support CDU’s mission for the education of physicians and other health care professionals and for actual provision of health care services to the diverse and underserved communities.
• Clinical Business Development
  
  The OCA continues to develop strategies and business plan(s) to create viable Clinical Business Enterprise(s) to be established in strategically-identified geographical locations in order to provide healthcare services that will address the needs of the target population.
• Delivery of Health Services by CDU Faculty and Students
  
  The OCA created and maintains a legal business entity structure that will provide opportunities for a successful Academic Faculty Practice. The OCA aims to fulfill the following “Key Success Factors for Academic Practices”:
  • Clinical Enterprise revenue generation and enhancement
  • Access to patients in a competitive delivery environment to ensure sufficient clinical exposure for medical students, residents and fellowship training
  • Access to extramural funding support for basic science and clinical research
  • Management and accountability structures linked to strategic plans to guide research and service efforts
  • Flexibility to respond to change
  • Effective corporate compliance, business risk management and expenditure controls
  • Faculty compensation plans aligned with environmental and CDU’s internal organizational goals
  The successful operation of the Faculty Practice will ultimately help to financially and programmatically support the components of CDU’s academic mission.

II. Office of Community Affairs

The Office of Community Affairs consists of the following three components and related activities:

• Clinical Faculty
  • Identification of Clinic-based physicians in the community that can serve as preceptors for medical students
  • Recruitment of the physicians for faculty appointment in the College of Medicine to boost preceptor pool for the medical students
  • Coordination of the Academic Boot Camp Training for the preceptors to streamline and standardize the preceptorship
  • Scheduling and supervision of the Student rotation through the clinics in the community
  • Monitoring and Evaluation of the preceptorship with set learning objectives and the institutional strategic
• Knowledge-Transfer Activities
  • Education
    • Expand the current community rotation sites for the Medical Students to include a wide variety of  community-service areas like:
      • Smoking Cessation
      • Drug Rehabilitation
      • Homeless health care services etc
    • Create Service Learning opportunities for Medical Students in Community Settings
      • Coaches in STD and Family Planning Clinics
      • Tutors and Mentors in the community-based pipeline programs
        
  • Research
    • Expand the current channels of cross communication between the members of the academic and community  faculty to expose and explore the shared areas of research interest
      • Learning Communities
    • Create opportunities for partnership and collaboration between the academic and community faculty members by supporting the joint effort to seek and secure funding for Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR)
• Community Faculty
  • Identification of Community Members with valuable skills and knowledge
  • Recruitment of the Community Members for faculty appointment in the College of Medicine
  • Coordination of the Academic Boot Camp Training and Orientation of the Community members to the University resources
  • Development of programs and portfolio for incorporation into the Medical Student curriculum and the Faculty Development Plan
  • Monitoring and Evaluation of the impact of the integration of the Community Faculty on student and research outcomes