Presentation of University Hospital-Beachwood Schools Partnership at Ohio School Board Association Capital Conference.

1. University Hospitals
Beachwood City Schools
Medical Academy Partnership

2. Today’s Presentation
● About Beachwood Schools & University Hospitals
● Concept origins
● Concept Development
● Replicability

3. Beachwood City Schools
● 1550 students - Highly Diverse
● 110.6 Performance Index
● 25 AP offerings
● 100% Graduation Rate
● Comprehensive educational experience

4. University Hospitals
●Mission Statement - “To Heal. To Teach. To Discover.”
●Nationally recognized academic medical center with 150 year history
●Serve 16 counties in Northern Ohio
●Multiple campuses – 25,000 employees

5. University Hospitals
● UH commitment to community partnerships
● Uniquely positioned with 100 residency training
programs to support the Medical Academy

6. Concept Origin
● Start with your community’s resources
● Identify a related educational/social need
● Craft a curricular means to address

7. Medical Academy Purpose
● Provide practical academic and
experiential advantage to students
considering professional careers in
the medical field (recognizing
significant attrition rate of pre-med
college students)

8. Designing the Program
● Researched needs of HS students
o Survey of medical professionals
o Survey of recent graduates
o Curriculum survey
● Researched existing programs

9. Align Existing Curriculum

10. Purpose - University Hospitals
● Community partners
● Mission Statement - “To Heal. To Teach. To Discover.”
● Develop and retain local talent

11. Developing the Program

12. Deploying the Program
● Formalized the partnership
○ Straight A Funding application
■ Coordinator
■ Advisory Council (governance)

13. Deploying the Program
● Beachwood High School Roll-out
○ Board communication
○ Marketing the medical academy
■ Press releases
■ Student/Parent listserv
■ Website
■ Information night
○ Counselors met with students
○ Discussion with teachers
○ Parent/Student Sign-Up

14. Deploying the Program
● University Hospitals Roll-out
○ Leadership announcement
○ Workforce announcement
○ Press releases
○ Targeted recruitment of health
care professionals

15. Deploying the Program
● Intro to Health Care Summer Camp
● Monthly Evening Seminars
● Volunteer and Internship Experiences
● On-Demand Webinars/WebCasts

16. Replicability?
● While programs may share
characteristics, no two are exactly
the same...

17. Replicability?
● Factors to consider
○ Identify partner
○ Identify the designers
○ Costs
○ Evaluation
○ Sustainability
○ Evolution

18. UH-Beachwood Schools
Medical Academy
Questions?
Beachwood Schools
Superintendent - Dr. Richard Markwardt - supt@beachwoodschools.org
Assistant Superintendent - Mr. Robert Hardis - rph@beachwoodschools.org
Director of Curriculum and Technology - Mr. Ken Veon - kev@beachwoodschools.org
University Hospitals
Vice President Corporate Health - PJ Hrehocik - patricia.hrehocik@uhhospitals.org