Message from the Dean

Welcome to Trinity School of Medicine

Every medical school has its own character, mission and goals for the future. At Trinity, our character has been shaped by our desire to provide dedicated individuals with an opportunity to pursue a career in medicine that may not have otherwise been available to them.

North America is facing a profound physician shortage. Each year in the U.S. there are far more first year residency positions available than U.S. medical school graduates to fill them. The need for qualified and compassionate physicians is urgent and because U.S. medical schools cannot keep pace with the demand—22,500 residency positions and only 16,500 graduates of U.S. medical schools last year—a solution was formed to help mitigate the crisis. In September of 2008, Trinity School of Medicine welcomed its inaugural class and created a new path of opportunity for a pioneering group of students.

Yet that only tells one side of the story. As a new school, Trinity also needed an opportunity. Trinity needed the opportunity to prove that our faculty, curriculum and instruction would provide students with the level of quality medical education necessary to become qualified clinicians. Without a graduating class, USMLE exam results or residency match statistics—criteria commonly used to evaluate medical education programs—prospective students had little information to evaluate the strength of our program. Knowing this, our approach was to acquire experienced educators and proven systems that would provide our students with a resourcerich learning environment—one that would prepare them for all that lies ahead in the practice of medicine.

Our utilization of visiting faculty from established North American medical schools, working in concert with the regional clinical instructors and experienced full time faculty, provides students with a broad range of exposure to modern medical practice. From the integration of clinical sciences at Milton Cato Memorial Hospital to our partnership with a leading USMLE Review program, Trinity has undertaken to go above and beyond in preparing our students for licensure and future medical practice.

At Trinity School of Medicine, our mission is the education and preparation of clinicians, dedicated to the practice of patient-centric medicine in the prevention and treatment of disease. To achieve our mission we are committed to those in need of opportunity, to educating future physicians and to reducing the severe physician shortage facing North America. Richard B. Roberts, MD Dean, Trinity School of Medicine

Richard B. Roberts, MD
Dean, Trinity School of Medicine