2023 State of the School Address

Highlights from the 2023 State of the School Address:

12:08 - This year, we will be expanding our MD program and will be admitting 66 new medical students, a 10 percent increase and the maximum increase permitted without seeking Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) approval.

14:00 - We are in the process of changing to a more traditional clerkship model, providing students more time to learn roles and responsibilities and giving faculty and residents greater opportunities to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses and provide feedback. Additionally, we are working to align our years-1 and -2 curriculum with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies by 2025 while increasing contact time between teachers and learners and expanding our basic science and clinical training.

16:32 - Every Class of 2023 graduate successfully matched with residency programs on Match Day, and we were also very excited to welcome the medical students matching to our programs from 24 different states, Puerto Rico, and multiple international locations. We are extremely excited to have 24 of our own medical students staying with our residency programs.

29:05 - A quick search of Google Scholar and you will find over 200 results since 2022 attributed to members of the school, and PubMed has 135 for the same period of time. Notably, the department of internal medicine had 41 peer-reviewed articles or manuscripts published, the department of surgery had 14, the department of emergency medicine had 11, the department of obstetrics and gynecology had four, and the department of plastic surgery had three. Additionally, our medical students published 29 research articles in 2022, including case reports, full-length research articles, and systematic reviews.

32:07 - UNLV Health is in the process of implementing a new patient reminder system and decentralizing patient scheduling to allow patients to schedule directly with the clinics. In addition, UNLV Health will be opening a new multidisciplinary clinic location by fall 2024, and they continue to explore new partnerships as they work to hire 80 new medical doctors and 20 new advanced practice providers by 2025.

36:47 - With the support of a generous donor, UNLV Health opened a clinic within the Clark County School District’s (CCSD) Bailey Middle School in 2022 and, earlier this year, opened a second clinic with CCSD at their Family Resource Center on Maryland Parkway.

CORRECTION: UNLV Health's multidisciplinary clinic is slated for fall 2024, not 2023.