Brody School of Medicine Distinction Track Programs
Professional development is enhanced by allowing students to independently pursue an area of interest reflecting the core values that led them to select a medical career. The Distinction Tracks allow motivated students to pursue these interests in a rigorous, longitudinal approach, culminating with a capstone portfolio. Mentors work closely with students throughout the 4 years of medical school, guiding and evaluating their progress.
Brody School of Medicine offers four Distinction Tracks related to core missions of the school. Together, these Distinction Tracks provide a mechanism to formally recognize the exceptional accomplishments of medical students.
Each of the four programs have unique content and learning objectives, but they use a similar adult learning theory model, emphasizing experiential learning and mentored project completion. However, leadership is component embedded in all of the programs. The specific capabilities and competencies are taught using different activities or experiences, but there are some unifying transformational leadership themes across each distinction track program. Leadership themes include: Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading Change.
Distinction Track Scholars present at 2024 QI Symposium
The 8th Annual Quality Improvement Symposium, was recently held on January 31st at Eastern AHEC. 43 projects related to quality improvement, patient safety, population health, and interprofessional practice from ECU and ECU Health were presented, with several Distinction Track scholars on hand to showcase their work. LINC M4, TI Babatunde was awarded an honorable mention in the Quick Shot Podium category for her project “Improving Documentation of a Pediatric Early Warning Score in the Electronic Health Record.”
Amazing work from all of our Track scholars that participated! To see a comprehensive list of the day’s presentations and photos from the event please visit the QIS webpage.
Health System Transformation and Leadership
prepares students with advanced expertise in patient safety, quality improvement, and inter-professional team-based care, with emphasis on leadership and change management skill development.
Medical Education & Teaching
prepares students to be effective medical educators and develops their interest in academic medicine.
Research
allows students to pursue clinical, basic science and translational research to characterize the mechanisms of diseases and the therapies used to improve health.
Service-Learning
prepares, encourages and supports medical students who work domestically and internationally with medically under-served, marginalized, and rural populations during their medical school career.
Distinction Track Programs Fund
This fund provides support to the Distinction Track Programs within the Brody School of Medicine. Expenditures may be used for, but are not limited to, registration and travel for students to attend conferences or meetings, supplies needed for activities, event expenses, and other expenses related to the success of the program.