Student Voice

About the Survey:

The QI survey is Conducted annually across all campuses with questions drawn from the Independent Student Analysis (ISA) — a student-run, required survey completed during a medical school's Institutional Self-Study. Our ISA will be administered in AY 2026–2027 in preparation for the 2028 LCME Survey Visit.

Overall Agreement:

• Overall Agreement* rates across all questions was 75% - 92%, with some individual areas for improvement specific to some classes/campuses
• 73% of questions achieved or exceeded the target Agreement rates of 80% for each class and campus

* Target Agreement is 80% or higher; Agreement between 70-80% is considered Moderate Risk; Agreement below 70% is considered High Risk.

Top Strengths:

• Students expressed high Agreement with administrative accessibility and awareness in both Student Affairs and Curriculum
• Institutional strengths include robust mistreatment prevention and reporting, universal access to library and information resources, and comprehensive support for student health, financial aid, and mental well-being

Top Priorities:

• Closely monitor elective advising, on-campus facilities, research opportunities, and transparency of core curricular content
• Improve Curriculum Office responsiveness, transparency of mistreatment prevention efforts, and comparability in educational experiences with MS1 Duluth students

Student-Administration Relationships:

• The Office of Student Affairs is recognized for its accessibility and responsiveness (84-100%), with specific praise for Dr. Kim's direct impact.
• Students find the Office of Curriculum highly approachable and attuned to their concerns (80-100%)

Student Services:

• There is exceptionally high engagement and appreciation for community service (96%)
• Health services, financial aid counseling, and weel-being programs are viewed as highly accessible across all campuses (89-98%)
• Students value the knowledgeable career advising (93%) and the strong availability of academic tutoring and support (94-98%)

Learning Environment & Facilities:

• Clear reporting procedures and effective investigation protocols have led ot extremely high confidence in the school's safety culture (92-97%)
• Nearly all students report feeling physically secure both on-campus and at clinical sites (97%)
• Students confirmed consistent access to essential spaces, including secure storage, group teaching, and relaxation areas (87-94%)

Library and Information Resources:

• Students reported universal access to holdings, instructional materials, and tech support both on- and off-campus (91-100%)

Educational Program:

• Students appreciate the quality and quantity of formative assessments in the Foundations phase (90% & 92%, respectively) and clinical phases (95% & 88%, respectively)
• Students agreed that summative assessments are effectively tied to objectives (91%)
• Students agree that workload is manageable in both the Foundations (92%) and clinical phases (94%)
• Clinical students value the overall quality of the clerkships (98%), have appropriate access to patients (98%), and are effectively supervised (98%)
• Students agree that the curriculum includes essential content in disease diagnosis (96%), management (91%), and prevention (94%), as well as health maintenance (93%) and nutrition (94%)
• Students agree the curriculum prepares them to care for patients from different backgrounds (97%) and promotes interprofessional collaborative skills (97%)

Areas Under Observation:

These areas are stable but have room for optimization

• Elective Advising: Utilization and effectiveness of advising on elective choices
• Student Spaces: Moderate, mixed levels of Agreement across campuses and classes about on-campus teaching and relaxation spaces
• Research Opportunities: Moderate Disagreement on access and support for research opportunities
• Comparability in Curricular Content: Moderate, mixed differences in perceptions about the representation of core curricular content

Areas Where Intervention is Needed:

These are primary areas of concern identified in the data

• Comparability of Curriculum Office Responsiveness: Duluth MS1 and MS2 students report lover Agreement about the responsiveness of the Office to student concerns
• Transparency of Mistreatment Prevention and Investigation Activities: While Agreement is high, there are also a high number of students who selected N/A (24-52%) indicating an opportunity to improve transparency
• Comparability in Educations Experiences: MS1 Duluth students report lower Agreement across several domains when compared to their MS2 Duluth counterparts and other campuses. These include: clinical skills instruction (67%) and responsiveness to course feedback (41%)
• Policy transparency: There is a lack of awareness about the process for reviewing and challenging academic records (63%)

Detailed Summary Reports:

• Comprehensive summaries are being generated and distributed to key stakeholders and leaders. These reports highlight specific risk areas identified through the full dataset

UME Leadership Deep Dive:

• Root cause analyses of flagged areas are being done to further refine our understanding of the problems in order to initiate effective solutions. These analyses may include further data review, focus groups, and faculty input

Action Plan Development:

• Targeted action plans are being developed and will be implemented before the Independent Student Analysis (ISA) launch and ahead of the 2028 accreditation visit

Independent Student Analysis (ISA):

• The ISA will be launched in the spring 2027 with results being incorporated into the medical school's accreditation documentation
• The student ISA Committee will evaluate the results and draft an executive summary with recommendations to the medical school