Mission & Values
Mission
Our mission is to deliver personalized, proactive, and holistic support that empowers and inspires each learner to reach academic, personal, and professional goals and to flourish at Brody and beyond.
Service Philosophy & Core Values
In OSSaW, we care about the success and well-being of every learner. Our goal is to serve by not only meeting but exceeding learner expectations. As a team, we endeavor to provide extraordinary support experiences from graduate school to the preclinical and clinical years of medical school. Moreover, we seek to reflect the same level of excellence in our work that our learners regularly aspire to and that the Brody has come to be known for.
Our key principles for delivering remarkable support experiences for learners are based on a team commitment to the following values:
- Adaptability
- Courage
- Empathy
- Forward-looking
- Innovation
- Optimism
Holistic & Personalized Support
OSSaW provides support for the rigorous academic requirements of graduate school and medical school but, more importantly, for the “whole” Brody learner. Our helping framework is based on elements of the SSIPP model of holistic learner support (Karp & Stacey, 2013).
We emphasize information sharing, skill building opportunities, affective support, and developmental learning opportunities to nurture the personal, professional and leadership development of diverse Brody learners.
Moreover, we believe that the best support for learners in graduate school and medical school is not only holistic, but also sustained throughout the academic experience as well as strategic, integrated, proactive, and personalized.
We utilize a framework for supporting learning success and development that emphasizes proactive intervention tailored to the situation of each learner. Interventions range from those designed to respond to general concerns to those intended to provide learners with more intensive support.