Report to the Community - Samuel Merritt University

ePort to the community 2010 — 2011
research & results
throughout its history, samuel merritt university has
excelled at teaching. with a student to faculty ratio that
averages 10 to 1, classes are known to be small, interactive
and hands-on. during clinical rotations, students have
access to preceptors at the hospital, or other clinical
sites, at a ratio of no more than 8 to 1. depending on the
specialty, a ratio of 1 to 1 may be required to provide safe
patient care. these
factors have enabled
the curricula across
all disciplines to
be consistently
rigorous, fastpaced
and learnercentered,
with
primary emphasis
on student learning
and patient safety.
Dr. richard rocco focuses on
diabetic research with DPm students
David Bentley and Jeremy evans.
university culture has
changed dramatically
in the last several
years, accelerating since the college became a university
in 2009. although research has been traditionally infused
throughout the teaching and learning experience, smu
is beginning to develop within its faculty more focused
efforts to produce a broad range of scholarship that
can directly contribute to the knowledge base of the
professional degrees that the university offers. where
faculty have long been recognized as expert practitioners
in their fields, the scholarly qualifications and interests
of our professoriate have increased in impressive ways.
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