The mission of the Department of Surgery is threefold:
Because these three goals are equally important and mutually interactive, the members of the department are expected to be supportive of and demonstrate all three.
The Department of Surgery is designed to provide an environment in which all three goals can be pursued simultaneously. The department gains strength in its mission from its collegial relationship with other clinical and basic science departments within the medical school, the health science schools, and the entire university community.
To fulfill our missions, we have set the following goals: