CHCS Strategic Plan 2020-2025

Nova Southeastern University, Copyright © 2019 16 NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY/MISSION Nova Southeastern University, a private, not-for-profit institution, offers a diverse array of innovative academic programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels, complementing on-campus educational opportunities and resources with accessible distance learning programs, and fostering intellectual inquiry, leadership, and commitment to community through engagement of students and faculty members in a dynamic, life-long learning environment. MISSION Health Professions Division The mission of Nova Southeastern University Health Professions Division is to train primary care health practitioners in a multidisciplinary setting, with an emphasis on medically underserved areas. The institutional premise is that health professionals should be trained in a multidisciplinary setting and, whenever possible, with integrated education. The University trains students in concert with other health profession students so that the various disciplines will learn to work together as a team for the good of the public’s health. During the didactic work, students share campus facilities and, in some cases, have combined classes. In their clinical experiences, they work together in facilities operated by the University. Furthermore, the Division aims to educate health care practitioners who will eventually increase the availability of health care in areas of Florida that suffer from health care shortages. The Division aims to alleviate some of these shortages by exposing the entire student body to the needs, challenges, and rewards or rural, underserved urban and geriatric care. Existing curricula require all students to attend ambulatory care clerkships in rural or urban areas, or both, making Nova Southeastern University strongly oriented toward a pattern of training its students in areas