Mission Statement

The Mission of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine is to create and sustain an environment of professionalism, scholarship, intellectual enquiry, and inclusiveness that enables our faculty and students to achieve their respective goals as health care professionals and biomedical scholars who are recognized by their colleagues for their professional excellence and by the communities in which they live and work for their involvement and commitment to the health and well-being of their fellow citizens. The College of Medicine is committed to playing a pivotal role in achieving the following critical state goals: (1) producing physicians who are prepared to provide the highest quality health care, and; (2) producing scientists at the forefront of basic, applied and translation biomedical research, including physician-scientists who can meet Florida's biomedical research and medical faculty workforce needs.

Guiding Principles of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine:

We are committed to providing a medical education program, in partnership with our hospital affiliates that:

• enables our medical students to become active, self-directed, life-long learners
• equips our graduates to effectively treat the patients that they are most likely to encounter in their practices
• demonstrates FAU's commitment to inclusiveness through the recruitment of a diverse body of students, faculty, and staff
• produces physicians with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and self-awareness required to practice effective, humanistic, patient-centered, evidence-based medicine in an increasingly diverse healthcare environment
• emphasizes the centrality of collaborative relationships in the provision of the highest quality comprehensive health care
• fosters and values collaboration between basic and clinical science, among medical specialties, and between academic medicine and community health care professionals

We are committed to providing graduate programs in the biomedical sciences that:

• produce scientists at the forefront of biomedical research and scholarship
• promote collaborative, inter-disciplinary, and innovative approaches to research and inculcate our students with the ability to think creatively
• are responsive to business and industry needs for individuals with scientific training and expertise