Research | Innovation | Scholarship | Education
Innovating Education For Better Health
THE RISE VISION
“Education is the foundation of transformative health care and scientific discovery. RISE aspires to create a Michigan Medicine culture where bold, scalable education innovations impact health and science, and thrive through collaboration and access to a broad, diverse network of resources, expertise, and stakeholders. Empowered by this culture, all faculty, staff, and learners embrace curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, initiative, and intelligent risk-taking to support education experimentation and discovery.”
We are proud to share our 2019-20 annual report, which describes our first year’s efforts in building a community of practice and cultivating a culture of innovation in health sciences education. Our annual report outlines our initial steps in creating this strategic initiative and highlights our major achievements—which include defining and adopting health science education innovation competencies, recruiting our first cohorts of fellows and mini-grant recipients, connecting members of our community, and providing resources to foster education innovation at Michigan Medicine and beyond. The report also describes the novel Virtual Talking Circles that bring innovators together each month for creative dialogue that promotes experimentation and exposure to innovation strategies. We also outline plans for growth by highlighting a few of our next key initiatives, such as addressing system-level issues to accelerate education innovation at Michigan Medicine.
THE RISE MISSION
The focus of Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education. (RISE) is to build the foundation for an innovation Community of Practice that engages in bold new translational educational practices for both physicians and scientists to improve learning and teaching for better health.
Our work aligns with the Education Pillar of the Medical School Strategic Plan, to cultivate a learning community that engages all in bold and innovative education for the advancement of science, health and health care delivery.
We need innovation in health sciences education to better meet the challenges facing health care.
Our usual improvement work is limited by real and perceived constraints, and it often fails to move the needle in addressing the strategic priorities of our institution as well as the larger needs of society. Health science education innovation has the potential to translate a scalable education intervention into a simulated, applied, or real-world setting to transform existing science, health, or healthcare delivery.
Michigan Medicine is well positioned to lead these activities and build a diverse, inclusive Community of Practice. As a leading academic medical center, we have the freedom and opportunity to explore dramatically different ways of teaching and learning across the spectrum of medical and graduate education programs.
Our Community of Practice is built on three key elements: the development of people, convening of individuals and community in purposeful projects and activities, and deliberate cultivation of an innovation culture.
