About – Aria University School of Medicine

THE MODEL

The Aria University School of Medicine’s model blends robust teaching with a distributed clinical education system. This approach immerses students and residents in various healthcare settings and populations, highlighting the physician’s role in enhancing medical treatment and utilizing Aria University’s strengths.

The Aria University School of Medicine will utilize a distributed clinical system—one which is both consistent with the proposed mission and, at the same time, socially and economically advantageous.

Aria University will partner with regional hospitals, clinics, and providers for its clinical programs. A distributed model will allow the Aria University School of Medicine to train students in a variety of healthcare settings and populations throughout the San Joaquin Valley region. Because data show that physicians tend to practice where they do their residencies, over time this approach will result in greater access to healthcare for a broader base of a diverse and currently underserved population. At the same time, the distributed model allows for leveraging existing healthcare resources by partnering with regional hospitals and clinics.

Aria University is well aware of the responsibilities for assuring the highest standards of care in all clinical and/or hospital facilities with which it will operate or affiliate. It is also understood that there are particular challenges in assuring quality of care in a distributed clinical model.

Mission & Vision

MISSION

Establish an institution that will advance the art and science of medicine by:
Promoting best practices in medical education through an innovative “Global Active – Learning” curriculum that can be shared globally.
Attracting and recruiting a faculty and student body that reflects the demographics of the region and the State of California.
Contributing to the geographical region by improving the health of its community through collaborations with community hospitals, physicians, other health care providers, and research.
Improving geographic conditions to help retain a physician workforce needed to meet the underserved patient care needs of California’s population, and in particular, the San Joaquin Valley region.

To establish an institution that advances medicine through research, improving the health of the community, and promoting best practices in medical education by encouraging, motivating, and empowering students to become inquisitive, knowledgeable, skillful, ethical, and compassionate physicians, scientists, and leaders in the medical professions.

To provide medical education opportunities to promising minority and disadvantaged students from California, particularly those from economically disadvantaged and medically underserved communities in the San Joaquin Valley.