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From the Office of the Dean

Paul Roth, M.D.
Dean, School of Medicine

Thanks for visiting the UNM Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. Since 1964, we have had a firm commitment to serve the communities within New Mexico and the surrounding region. This commitment is reflected in our academic and clinical programs.

We are proud of our educational achievements in the establishment of the Problem-Based Learning Methodology in medical education. We have instituted this throughout our four year undergraduate curriculum and are now introducing these concepts into our Graduate Medical Education programs.

Our research enterprise is vigorous and growing. We are developing centers of excellence in many areas, i.e., Epidemiology and Population-based Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics and Oncology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Cell Biology, Cell Adhesion, Cell Motility, and Signal Transduction, & Neurosciences. Teams of our scientists are working to assure future success.

New Mexico is an extremely competitive health care delivery marketplace and has recently introduced Medicaid managed care. Our clinical practice is responding aggressively to these changes with strong support from the University Hospital.

We hope that the information you find within will be useful to your inquiry and we look forward to a more personal contact in the near future.

Mission Statement

The mission of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine is to advance the health of all New Mexicans by educating and increasing the diversity of health professionals, leaders and scientists; providing outstanding and compassionate medical care; advocating for the health of all New Mexicans and pursuing new knowledge and excellence of practice.

Vision Statement

The vision of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine is to be a transformative community where students become leaders in the delivery of excellent and compassionate health care, partners in the crafting of health policy, and champions of public health; where leaders are lifelong learners; where knowledge and discovery encompass the human experience and are applied to healing and promoting the well-being of our state’s people; where scientists, health care providers, and the public collaborate to translate research into real health benefits; where achieving health and health care equality is a common goal; and where diversity is our foremost strength.

SOM Core Values

We commit to these core values in our decision-making, the prioritization of resources, and fulfillment of our mission:

• Excellence and Accountability in the conduct of education, research, patient care, and community engagement;
• Compassion in patient care and for the lives and conditions of all New Mexico’s people;
• Diversity that values the unique characteristics of all people and that is actively sought at all levels within our academic community;
• Integrity, Professionalism, and Ethical Behavior that embodies the principles of altruism, beneficence and justice; promotes patient care, learning, research and productivity through relationships based on courtesy, civility and respectful communication; and is worthy of the trust and respect given to us as teachers, scholars and healers
• Social Responsibility demonstrated by discovery and teaching about the social, economic, and cultural contexts of New Mexico people’s health; commitment to health promotion and disease prevention; and by self-evaluation of the access to and quality and distribution of our health care professionals and services, and
• Creativity and Innovation that translates biomedical research into individual and community health benefits and medical education into population health literacy, that accelerates health technology diffusion to all corners of the state, and that transforms the science of clinical care into a healing art and the integration of academic and local knowledge into an improved quality of life for all New Mexico people.

Our aspiration is to be a steeple of excellence accountable for educating today's and tomorrow's physicians, scientists, and allied health professionals, creating new knowledge and providing leadership in patient care delivery. Our primary focus is on the unique health needs of New Mexico's culturally and ethnically diverse populations.

The environment in which we work recognizes and respects all who make up the community and those we serve.