Educational Enhancement Department (EED)

No matter how hard the going gets, EED puts you back on the path to your dream.

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EED provides advising sessions, specialized faculty and peer education, and an EED orientation in addition to facilitating student study groups.

EED is committed to empowering students to realize their individual academic and personal potential. The EED works to create an academically engaged community fostering a campus-wide commitment to academic excellence and lifelong learning. This is accomplished by providing services and activities that complement and enrich medical education, improve student performance, and advance the university’s goals regarding the education, retention and development of medical professionals.  Many students who enter EED for support end up becoming EED peer educators, establishing a cycle of students helping students.

EED’s services are free for students, helping them achieve at the highest levels and empowering them to excel.

 

EED INITIATIVES

EED offers the following services to College of Medicine students:

  • EED-New Student Orientation programs and events designed to assist students transitioning to medical education.
  • One-on-one academic advising founded on research-based successful study methods.
  • Medical Scholars peer-led supplemental instruction programs including the “Facilitated Study Groups,” “Teaching Assistant” and “Integrated Study” programs.
  • Strategy courses, including Focus on Success and Learning Strategies, designed to teach study and time-management skills as well as professional behaviors and habits of mind.
  • Professional development opportunities for faculty to enhance medical education.
  • EED “Doctors Bag” on the EED Blackboard© course site, providing useful tools for learning as well as the development of professional behaviors and habits of mind.
  • Student-leader development programs such as the Student Government Association and Ambassadors’ Program.
  • The Office of disabilities provides assistance and support to students who qualify for testing accommodations based on National Board of Medical Education and Americans with Disabilities Act criteria.