College of Health Professions’ Values

Education

We educate exceptional healthcare professionals:   • We educate through innovation, compassion, teamwork, and patient- and family-centered care.  • We utilize and model life-long learning and evidence-based health care.  •  We embrace contemporary instructional technologies and sound foundational approaches to education.  •  We improve health care delivery in Arkansas, across the nation, and beyond.

Scholarship

We contribute to and advance the intellectual and clinical practice foundations of our professions:   • We educate students, scholars, and health professionals by (a) incorporating current evidence and evidence-based clinical practice into curricula; and (b) guiding and mentoring learners to participate in and conduct scholarly activity.  •  We engage in scholarly inquiry to advance education, health, and healthcare, and we disseminate new knowledge in forms that are appropriate to target audiences.

Service

We embrace a culture of service with our colleagues, learners, and community partners to promote our professions, enrich the lives of the individuals we serve, and strengthen our communities:   • We achieve excellence in service through leadership in our departments, college, university, and professions.  •  We cultivate high impact service-learning opportunities that strengthen our communities and promote learner engagement, inter-professional development, leadership, and team work.

Collegiality

We respect and honor the talents, abilities, and diversity of our colleagues and partners as, together, we endeavor to attain our highest potentials.   • We collaborate, actively listen, address concerns, and demonstrate mutual respect for the philosophies and ideologies of those whom we serve.  •  We seek and nurture inter-professional relationships that empower us and others to engage in scholarship, educate learners, serve, and lead our professions.