At Mayo Clinic, all staff members begin and end their day with one thought — patient care. Everything we do and every decision we make revolves around the patient's needs. As we go forward in our clinical practice improvements, we will draw upon advances in technology and systems engineering to enhance service. We will support a Practice Innovation and Quality program to analyze methodologies and create tactical plans to increase efficiencies and reduce cost. And we will ensure that our physician investigators have the resources they require to improve patient care through clinical research.
Researchers at Mayo Clinic are focused on one goal — finding answers. Those answers involve predicting, preventing, and — ultimately curing the world's deadliest diseases. Giant steps are being made in biomedical research to make individualized medicine a reality in everyday practice. Researchers are focused on easing the suffering caused by cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, organ failure, and other major diseases.
At Mayo Clinic, transforming medical education means taking students out of the classroom and putting them into real-world clinical situations. We accomplish this with an innovative program and facility called The Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center. This hands-on environment gives students the opportunity to polish their critical skills in a fast-paced, high-tech setting by using virtual enactments. Students will also have access to The Education Technology Center, an electronic infrastructure to capture and share medical information among our medical staff, students, and colleagues worldwide.