...using the science of education to improve the practice of education.

Office for Excellence in Education Purpose

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Our purpose

To advance excellence in education across Mayo Clinic schools, sites, and shields by developing skilled and future-ready educators, facilitating education research, building community, and translating the science of education into innovative, data-centric practices, products, and processes.

To cultivate an innovative, adaptive, and visionary education ecosystem at Mayo Clinic that enables transformative educational experiences, promotes exemplary outcomes, ​and supports holistic, future-ready human flourishing.


Guiding beliefs

  • Curriculum and assessment best practices create data assets that enable Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science to better meet learner and workforce needs.
  • Program evaluation measures education quality, experience, and outcomes to demonstrate the value of education and enable data-informed decisions.
  • Faculty development promotes three-shield excellence by inspiring, supporting, recognizing, and disseminating the excellent and innovative work of Mayo Clinic educators.
  • Coaching supports learning and professional growth in ways that complement more traditional approaches like guiding, advising, and mentoring.
  • Education research generates knowledge to improve education practice and helps establish Mayo Clinic as a credible thought leader in biomedical education.
  • Diverse perspectives result in better ideas and more sustainable, equitable solutions. Constructive candor is essential to the pursuit of excellence, and science is only one source of knowledge for improving education practice.
  • Access, representation, and fairness advance excellence in education by creating environments where everyone can contribute their ideas, share their talents, and achieve their potential.