The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) is committed to remaining a world-leading institution in three equally valued and inter-related missions: patient care, education, and research. The success of these missions requires the integration of the School of Medicine and Health Services and a shared destiny with the University of Pennsylvania. By recruiting and retaining a world-class faculty and staff who strive for excellence, innovation, quality, and professionalism, we will accomplish our missions. Our goal is to be recognized nationally as the most accomplished and respected School of Medicine and Health System.

     Our education programs develop the next generations of leaders in medicine and biomedical research. To attract the most qualified students and trainees, we will engage the most outstanding educators and researchers in teaching and training; develop and implement innovative methods of instruction; provide state-of-the-art facilities; and foster educational relationships with the University and UPHS network. We will recruit, retain and reward outstanding educators by providing an environment that promotes creativity and rewards teaching excellence. The School of Medicine, its faculty, and its alumni will be known for a shared commitment to lifelong learning.

     Graduate Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliated Hospitals provides training in over 50 ACGME-accredited specialties and subspecialties. We offer a full range of graduate medical training in a region that leads the nation in providing quality health care. We hereby commit ourselves to offering high quality graduate medical education training programs that will provide our house staff the opportunity to become fully proficient in their chosen specialties, with emphasis on the intellectual, professional, scholarly and personal growth of our trainees. We realize that, in order to offer such programs, it is necessary to provide trainees as well as faculty with the necessary resources to be successful. We commit to providing those resources on a continuing basis. We further commit that all training programs will be internally evaluated to ensure their consistent achievement of excellence, as reflected by the institutional and program standards of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education.

     This Statement of Institutional Commitment, promulgated by the Graduate Medical Education Committee, is supported by the governing authority, administration, teaching faculty and staff of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.