About Us

Our Organizational Goals

IAU-AIMS serves to

• Provide a forum to align common interests of basic/clinical scientists and students.
• Be a non-threatening place for students and faculty to obtain advice and mentoring.
• Sponsor journal clubs (to develop competencies for analysis of peer-reviewed literature and approaches to evidence based medicine).
• Promote and identify collaborations, sharing of ideas and peer mentorship
• Support development of educational, clinical, population health, and basic science research projectsand presentation of outcomes to a broad
  
  academic community
• Engage IAU teachers in ongoing faculty development to refine their skills(i.e. to develop effective test questions, clinical cases, SP/ simulator
  
  assessments)
• Facilitate the recruitment and training of healthcare providers from St Lucia medical facilities to serve as clinical educators and mentors
• Build bridges to clinical preceptors at the USA medical sites and plan strategies to optimize the preparation of students entering clerkship training
• Provide opportunities for premed and medical students to find career mentorship
• Encourage dissemination of health research through community & public outreach
• Support presentation of faculty research findings at academic conferences
• Guide faculty and students on how and where to access to key resources for personal development and professional advancement
• Help the IAU academic community realize continuous quality improvement, CQI
• Conduct an Annual Research Conference with presentations by faculty, students, and invited international experts / scholars as plenary speakers
• Conduct needs / theme driven "Continued Medical Education" (CME) symposia / workshops under license by the Saint Lucia Medical and Dental Association
• Publish peer-reviewed studies in the "IAU-AIMS Journal of International Medical Scholarship
• Host the Institutional Research Review Board (IRB) committee with divisions to ensure bioethical standards are maintained for all scopes of research activity