2017 Accomplishments

Dr. Stratton continues to serve as Assistant Dean for Quality Management in the UKCOM Office of Medical Education – focusing, most recently, on developing and implementing a formal continuous quality improvement (CQI) program to monitor, assess, and refine the College’s education and service missions.  Related to this, in preparation for the College’s 8-year reaccreditation cycle, he serves as: (1) co-chair of the LCME Subcommittee on Standards 1 (Mission, Planning, Organization and Integrity) and 2 (Leadership and Administration) – and is a member on two others: Standard 3 (Academic and Learning Environments) and Standards 6-8 (Curricular Objectives, Content, Management, and Evaluation).  Also in the accreditation realm, he is faculty liaison for the Independent Student Analysis (ISA) component of the LCME accreditation self-study, a member of the overall LCME Executive Steering Committee, and the COM representative to the main-campus University Assessment Council (UAC). He remains active as a project evaluator on an NIH-funded project designed to enhance grant-writing skills among faculty serving at predominantly underrepresented institutions, and collaborated on submission of a NIGMS R25 proposal seeking to broaden these efforts over the next 5 years. He made peer-reviewed presentations re: organizational CQI and student performance at one national and one regional meeting, respectively, and served as proposal reviewer for both. He continues to serve on CTS Admissions Committee and coordinates the annual COM Clinical Performance Exam (CPX) – a multi-day assessment for all advancing M3 students.