Forum Session: Connectivity strategies for successful, innovative, multi-institutional medical education programs

With the right connectivity plan you can turn a healthcare provider, a school of medicine, and a nursing school into a formidable integrated life-science center. Here, session leaders profile a business planning model for key program integration features involving jointly developed curricula, targeted facility investments for shared-use and connectivity, and integrated financial programs. In particular, they examine the program impacts of a large, strategically located simulation and teaching center, the construction of a connecting pneumatic tube network, and an overarching management system for allocating and managing capital investment and operating expenses.

This session is approved for AIA Continuing Education credit.

• Todd M. Buerger, AIA, ACHA , Principal - BSA LifeStructures
  
• Stephen B. Leapman, MD , Executive Associate Dean for Educational Affairs - Indiana University School of Medicine
  
• Douglas M. Morris, FACHE , Vice President, Operations and Facilities - Clarian Health Partners, Inc.